I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHYWhatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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’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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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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