The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHYMy dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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 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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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