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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.

Bill Nighy

To 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.
BILL NIGHY

Daughter Sleep Thinking
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Actors Long Odds
So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
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.
BILL NIGHY

Beautiful Ideas Simple
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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Hunger Way West
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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Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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Fall Girl Memories
Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
BILL NIGHY

Recover Smoke Stop
The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
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.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Jobs Sick
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHY

Bad Grim Honest Things
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
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.
BILL NIGHY

Father Obvious Everyone Order Play
When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHY

Difficult Girl Seeing

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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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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