Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
BILL NIGHYIf you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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All 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.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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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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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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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 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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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