Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
BILL NIGHYI have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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.
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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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