Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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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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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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