I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHYSo there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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