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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
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.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Thinking Writing
I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
BILL NIGHY

Giving Hard Thinking Times
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHY

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

Animation Dislike Process
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHY

Computer People Weird People
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
BILL NIGHY

Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
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.
BILL NIGHY

Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Opening Play Two
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
BILL NIGHY

Adorable Lovely
You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
BILL NIGHY

Crazy Jobs Tell Thinking
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHY

Actually Done Love People
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHY

Buttons Men Relax
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
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.
BILL NIGHY

Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHY

Bad Grim Honest Things

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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