When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHYI’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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