Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
BILL NIGHYI did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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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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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.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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 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 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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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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