When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHYAnyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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