I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
BILL NIGHYI’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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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.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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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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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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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