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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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 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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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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