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 NIGHYI’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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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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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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