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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More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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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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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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.
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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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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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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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