When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
BILL NIGHYI have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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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.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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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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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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 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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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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