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.
BILL NIGHYWhen you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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