Bill Nighy Quotes - Page 4

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• Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

  Bill Nighy

  Guitar, Order, Singing

  "Record doctor" by Paul Mardles, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2009.

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Girl, Memories, Fall

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• I'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.

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  Father, Order, Play

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Technology, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

  Bill Nighy

  Boys, Thinking, Fabulous

  Source: collider.com

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• I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

  Bill Nighy

  Soul, Black, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Lucky, World

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Good Night, Alarms, Proud

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, People, Cameras

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Hard Times, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Fans, Looks, Rehearsal

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

  Bill Nighy

  Mean, Views, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, Absence

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Writing, Thinking, Gambling

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Memories, Play, Done

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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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.'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Trying, Fifty

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

  Bill Nighy

  People, Mind, Want

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

  Bill Nighy

  Crazy, Soul, Rhythm And Blues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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."

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

  Bill Nighy

  Pirate, Radio, Remember

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Numbers, Love Actually, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Lucky, Variety

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Lucky, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

  Bill Nighy

  Compassion, Two, People

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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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?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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