I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHYMore people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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It’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.
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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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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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