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.
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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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.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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 learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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 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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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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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