Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHYI’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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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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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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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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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