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 NIGHYEmma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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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.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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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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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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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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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