When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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 really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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