You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHYI used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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