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.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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