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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.

Bill Nighy

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Opening Play Two
Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
BILL NIGHY

Anxiety Day Tomorrow Yesterday
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHY

Boys Fabulous Thinking
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
BILL NIGHY

Attractive Dad Style
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself
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.
BILL NIGHY

Country People Zero
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Going Looks People
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
BILL NIGHY

People Stage Walks
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Ruins Wanting
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHY

Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Cases Extroverts
I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
BILL NIGHY

Father Obvious Everyone Order Play
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.
BILL NIGHY

Looks Technology Thinking
Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
BILL NIGHY

Recover Smoke Stop
I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
BILL NIGHY

Giving Hard Thinking Times
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHY

Hunger Way West

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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