As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
BILL NIGHYOpening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 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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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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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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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I don’t even own a car.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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