Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYYou get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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 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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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’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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