I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHYI’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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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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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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