When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHYI don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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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 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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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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 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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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 used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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