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.
BILL NIGHYI love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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 nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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