I hardly even leave my own house.
BILL NIGHYI’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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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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’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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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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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’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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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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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