Quotes by Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

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.

Absence

Doe

Way

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.

Guitar

Order

Singing

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.

Attention

Needs

Pay

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.

Mean

Play

Views

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

Doe

Way

West

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

Boys

Fabulous

Thinking

I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Animation

Dislike

Process

I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

Dark

Thinking

Two

I don’t normally watch films I’m in because I’m squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I’m not being coy or cute, but it’s just true.

Cute

Long

Watches

I don’t seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn’t help me. Precedents don’t inform my experience.

Able

Help Me

Helping

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Able

Absence

Acting

Actors

Agree

Alarms

Animation

Attention

Auditions

Bad Things

Beautiful

Believe

Bothered

Boys

Brown

Casual

Christmas

Clothes

Compassion

Computer

Couple

Crazy

Crisis

Cute

Dark

Degrees

Dislike

Doe

Done

Easy

Enthusiasm

Fabulous

Faces

Fall

Fame

Father

Fifty

Football

Fun

Girl

Good Night

Grim

Guitar

Guy

Help Me

Helping

Helpless

Honest

House

Hysterical

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Quotes by Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

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

I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I don’t normally watch films I’m in because I’m squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I’m not being coy or cute, but it’s just true.

I don’t seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn’t help me. Precedents don’t inform my experience.

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