Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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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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.’
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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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