I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYI would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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 always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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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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.
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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