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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
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
I 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.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Men Solitary Life
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
BILL NIGHY

Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
BILL NIGHY

Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
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.
BILL NIGHY

Alarms Good Night Proud
So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
BILL NIGHY

Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
BILL NIGHY

Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHY

Computer People Weird People
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
BILL NIGHY

Believe People Real
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
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
BILL NIGHY

Absence Describe People Ways
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHY

Average Knows Perception
There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
BILL NIGHY

Men Three World
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself

Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”

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