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.”
BILL NIGHYOne 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, ‘
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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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’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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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