I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
BILL NIGHYWhatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’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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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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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.”
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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