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
BILL NIGHYTry to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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’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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