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.’
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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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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