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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

Bill Nighy

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Hurt Strings
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Ruins Wanting
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.
BILL NIGHY

Father Obvious Everyone Order Play
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.
BILL NIGHY

Lucky Scripts Stories
When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHY

Difficult Girl Seeing
The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHY

Couple Months Play
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.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Auditions Really Happy
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHY

Cases Elderly Way
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Opening Play Two
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.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
BILL NIGHY

People Stage Walks
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.
BILL NIGHY

Lucky Play World
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Cases Extroverts
They’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.”
BILL NIGHY

Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
BILL NIGHY

Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay

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