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.
BILL NIGHYIn 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’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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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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 ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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