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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

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
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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Likes Stories Vampire
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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Absence Describe People Ways
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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Difficult Girl Seeing
If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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Suits Wardrobe World
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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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
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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Actually Done Love People
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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Football Kids Sorry
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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Hunger Way West
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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Ideas Men Solitary Life
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Buttons Men Relax
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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Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
I don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased
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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Attractive Dad Style
I hardly even leave my own house.
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Hardly Own House My
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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Fascism Long Mysterious
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.
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Looks Technology Thinking
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
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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Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
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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Guitar Order Singing
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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People Stage Walks
One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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Anything Regret Say Smoking
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
BILL NIGHY

Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers

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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