I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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 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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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 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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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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