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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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Difficult Girl Seeing
I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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Football Kids Sorry
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Generally People Proud
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
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
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
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Done Jobs Play
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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Actors Auditions Really Happy
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
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.
BILL NIGHY

Film People Want
I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
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.
BILL NIGHY

Beautiful Ideas Simple

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