Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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’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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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