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I hardly even leave my own house.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Football Kids Sorry
So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
BILL NIGHY

Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
BILL NIGHY

Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
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
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHY

Generally People Proud
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
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Jobs Sick
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.
BILL NIGHY

Believe People Real
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
BILL NIGHY

Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHY

Hunger Way West
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHY

People Theatre Thinking
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
BILL NIGHY

Likes Stories Vampire
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Going Looks People
If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
BILL NIGHY

Suits Wardrobe World
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 get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself

I hardly even leave my own house.

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