I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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I don’t even own a car.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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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’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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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 don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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’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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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