I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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.”
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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 crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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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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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