I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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 not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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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 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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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 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.
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