I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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