I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHYThe phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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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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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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