I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHYOpening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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