When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHYTo 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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 not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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 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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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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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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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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 think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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