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

Bill Nighy

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHY

People Theatre Thinking
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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Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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Guitar Hurt Strings
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHY

Fall Girl Memories
I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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Mind People Reality Want
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Buttons Men Relax
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
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
BILL NIGHY

Absence Describe People Ways
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.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers
I hardly even leave my own house.
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Hardly Own House My
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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Actors Cases Extroverts
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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHY

Average Knows Perception
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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHY

Actors Long Odds
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

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