I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
BILL NIGHYOne 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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’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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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