It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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 crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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