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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.

Bill Nighy

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Hurt Strings
With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
BILL NIGHY

Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHY

Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHY

Faces Helpless Romance
I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
BILL NIGHY

Animation Dislike Process
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
BILL NIGHY

Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
BILL NIGHY

Groups Politician Want
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHY

Done Jobs Play
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHY

Bad Grim Honest Things
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.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
BILL NIGHY

Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
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.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Thinking Writing
Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
BILL NIGHY

Anxiety Day Tomorrow Yesterday
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.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
BILL NIGHY

Anything Regret Say Smoking
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
BILL NIGHY

Fifty Play Quoted Trying

One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.

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