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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

Bill Nighy

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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Actors Cases Extroverts
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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People Stage Walks
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Generally People Proud
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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Lucky Scripts Stories
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.
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Absence Describe People Ways
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
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.
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Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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Ideas Men Solitary Life
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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Guitar Order Singing
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.
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Daughter Sleep Thinking
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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Suits Wardrobe World
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, ‘
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Anything Regret Say Smoking
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHY

Couple Months Play

When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

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