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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.

Bill Nighy

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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Guitar Order Singing
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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Country People Zero
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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Anything Regret Say Smoking
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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Done Memories Play Recall
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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Actors Cases Extroverts
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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Fall Girl Memories
To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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Daughter Sleep Thinking
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
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.’
BILL NIGHY

Fifty Play Quoted Trying
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.
BILL NIGHY

Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Heart People Writing
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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People Stage Walks
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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Hunger Way West
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Going Looks People
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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God Older Say Yourself
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHY

Generally People Proud

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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