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.
BILL NIGHYI’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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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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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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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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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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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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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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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