I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
BILL NIGHYI don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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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.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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’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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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