I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
BILL NIGHYSomebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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