One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHYI am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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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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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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 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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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.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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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