With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
BILL NIGHYMore people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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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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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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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