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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

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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Inspirational Motivational Rain
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
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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Fascism Long Mysterious
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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Likes Stories Vampire
If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Boys Fabulous Thinking
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
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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Absence Describe People Ways
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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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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Fans Looks Rehearsal
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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Average Knows Perception
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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Alarms Good Night Proud
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’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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Beautiful Ideas Simple
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
With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Done Jobs Play
I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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Kids Movie
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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Believe People Real
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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Ideas Men Solitary Life
To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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Daughter Sleep Thinking
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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Hunger Way West
I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
BILL NIGHY

Animation Dislike Process

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