I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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 going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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 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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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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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 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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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