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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.

Bill Nighy

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Called Goes never
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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Actually Done Love People
I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Actors Long Odds
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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Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
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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Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
BILL NIGHY

Acting Guy Squids
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
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.
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Kind Men Shirts
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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Bad Grim Honest Things
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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God Older Say Yourself
I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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Kids Movie
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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Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
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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Lucky Scripts Stories
I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
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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Mind People Reality Want
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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Gambling Thinking Writing
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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Film People Want
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
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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Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
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.”
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Crazy Jobs Tell Thinking
I don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
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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Actor Always Home Thinking Work

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