I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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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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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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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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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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