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Bill Nighy

I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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Recover Smoke Stop
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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Actors Long Odds
I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Done Jobs Play
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
I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
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
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
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Couple Months Play
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
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
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Going Looks People
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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Likes Stories Vampire
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
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 probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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Average Knows Perception
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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Acting Guy Squids
I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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Kind Men Shirts
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Called Goes never
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
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
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

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