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
BILL NIGHYStanding in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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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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I don’t even own a car.
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