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.
BILL NIGHYIf you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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 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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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