I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
BILL NIGHYIt’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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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 always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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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