If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
BILL NIGHYThe way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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