When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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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’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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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’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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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 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.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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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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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