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.
BILL NIGHYI don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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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 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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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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