If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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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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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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 probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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