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.
BILL NIGHYI’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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.
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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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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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