They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
BILL NIGHYWhen you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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.
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re 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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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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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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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 have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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