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Bill Nighy

I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
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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Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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Fall Girl Memories
If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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Suits Wardrobe World
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
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Actors Long Odds
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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Looks Technology Thinking
I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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Giving Hard Thinking Times
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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People Theatre Thinking
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
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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Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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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Guitar Order Singing
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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Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
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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Gambling Jobs Sick
I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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Faces Helpless Romance
I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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Mind People Reality Want

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