I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHYI’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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’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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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