I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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 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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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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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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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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