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.
BILL NIGHYI find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Jerry 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.
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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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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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 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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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