I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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