You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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