I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHYJerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I don’t even own a car.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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