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.
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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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 I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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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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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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 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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I 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.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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