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.
BILL NIGHYTry to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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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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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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 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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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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 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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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