The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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 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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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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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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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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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 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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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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