I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
BILL NIGHYThey’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.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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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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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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 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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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 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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