I hardly even leave my own house.
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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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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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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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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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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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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