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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.

Bill Nighy

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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Anything Regret Say Smoking
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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Football Kids Sorry
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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Men Three World
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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Lucky Scripts Stories
When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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Alarms Good Night Proud
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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Cameras Jobs People
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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Acting Guy Squids
I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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Beautiful Ideas Simple
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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Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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Love Actually Numbers People
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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Country People Zero
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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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
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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Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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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Attractive Dad Style
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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Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff

So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.

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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.

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