When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHYI generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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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.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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