Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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