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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More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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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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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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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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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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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