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.
BILL NIGHYOne 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, ‘
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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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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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’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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