I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYI 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.’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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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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’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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