I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
BILL NIGHYI’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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.
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