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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Generally People Proud
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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Animation Dislike Process
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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Hunger Way West
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHY

Actors Long Odds
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Order Singing
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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Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Called Goes never
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 NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
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.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers
I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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Kind Men Shirts
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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Fans Looks Rehearsal
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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Gambling Jobs Sick
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
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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Attractive Dad Style
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two

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