I don’t even own a car.
BILL NIGHYAll 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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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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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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