More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYMy dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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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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