I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
BILL NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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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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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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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.”
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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