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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

Bill Nighy

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 NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
BILL NIGHY

Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHY

People Theatre Thinking
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Called Goes never
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Hurt Strings
Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
BILL NIGHY

Recover Smoke Stop
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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Buttons Men Relax
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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God Older Say Yourself
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.
BILL NIGHY

Alarms Good Night Proud
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHY

Fall Girl Memories
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.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
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.
BILL NIGHY

Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
BILL NIGHY

Animation Dislike Process
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.
BILL NIGHY

Lucky Play World
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

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