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.
BILL NIGHYI don’t even own a car.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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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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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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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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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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 a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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