They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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 love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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In 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.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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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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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 have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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