I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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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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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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