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 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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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.”
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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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