The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHYI’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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