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.”
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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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