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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.

Bill Nighy

Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
BILL NIGHY

Recover Smoke Stop
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHY

Hunger Way West
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Hurt Strings
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
BILL NIGHY

Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHY

Actors Long Odds
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHY

Bed might Very Good
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.
BILL NIGHY

Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
BILL NIGHY

Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHY

Boys Fabulous Thinking
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.
BILL NIGHY

Alarms Good Night Proud
The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
BILL NIGHY

Groups Politician Want
There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
BILL NIGHY

Men Three World
In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
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.
BILL NIGHY

Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff

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