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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’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
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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Recover Smoke Stop
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.’
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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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Ideas Men Solitary Life
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Done Jobs Play
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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Actually Done Love People
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Going Looks People
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Couple Months Play
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.
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Gambling Thinking Writing
The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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Cameras Jobs People
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Generally People Proud
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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Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Called Goes never
I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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Giving Hard Thinking Times
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
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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Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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Lucky Play World
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
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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Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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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Kind Men Shirts
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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Guitar Order Singing
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, ‘
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Anything Regret Say Smoking
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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Football Kids Sorry
In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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Love Actually Numbers People

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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