I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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’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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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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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’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.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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 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 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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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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