I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang 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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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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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So 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.
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