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.
BILL NIGHYThe way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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