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.
BILL NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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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’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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