I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYI find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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’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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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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I don’t even own a car.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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