I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHYI’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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