It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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