You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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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.
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