If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
BILL NIGHYOne of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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 dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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