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 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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I don’t even own a car.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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