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.
BILL NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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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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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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