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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.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHY

Faces Helpless Romance
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHY

Boys Fabulous Thinking
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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Daughter Sleep Thinking
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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Hunger Way West
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Anybody Spent Time
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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Animation Dislike Process
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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Crazy Jobs Tell Thinking
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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Bad Grim Honest Things
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
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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Anything Regret Say Smoking
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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Lucky Play World
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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Ideas Men Solitary Life
If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
BILL NIGHY

Suits Wardrobe World
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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Film People Want
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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Guitar Hurt Strings
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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Men Three World
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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God Older Say Yourself
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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Absence Describe People Ways
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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Heart People Writing
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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People Stage Walks
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Buttons Men Relax
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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Done Memories Play Recall

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