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.
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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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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