Bill Nighy Quotes
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'
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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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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. 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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'
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You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
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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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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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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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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've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
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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'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.
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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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When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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, '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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When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. 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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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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