You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHYIf 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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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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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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 love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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