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.
BILL NIGHYI hardly even leave my own house.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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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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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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 don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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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 really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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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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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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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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