Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYI did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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