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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.

Bill Nighy

When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHY

Bad Grim Honest Things
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHY

Computer People Weird People
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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Animation Dislike Process
If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Order Singing
I 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.
BILL NIGHY

Looks Technology Thinking
In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
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.
BILL NIGHY

Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Couple Months Play
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.
BILL NIGHY

Football Kids Sorry
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 NIGHY

Alarms Good Night Proud
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Men Solitary Life
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
BILL NIGHY

People Stage Walks
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHY

Actors Long Odds

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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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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