You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
BILL NIGHYYou tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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