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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

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Bill Nighy
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 12
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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.
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When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
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The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
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