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 NIGHYI’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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.’
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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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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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