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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More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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 have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I don’t even own a car.
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