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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Bill Nighy

One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
BILL NIGHY

Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHY

Inspirational Motivational Rain
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.
BILL NIGHY

Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
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.
BILL NIGHY

Country People Zero
I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHY

Faces Helpless Romance
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.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHY

Boys Fabulous Thinking
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.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Jobs Sick
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 NIGHY

Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
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.
BILL NIGHY

Lucky Play World
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.
BILL NIGHY

Daughter Sleep Thinking
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
BILL NIGHY

Actor Always Home Thinking Work
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHY

Average Knows Perception
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
BILL NIGHY

Pirate Probably Radio Remember
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Ruins Wanting

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

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