"It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas."
-Bill Nighy
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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
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"I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies."
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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 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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"I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage."
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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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"We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character."
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"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
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"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."
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