If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
BILL NIGHYWith 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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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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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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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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