I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHYIf I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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.
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