If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHYAs you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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 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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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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