You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHYI hardly even leave my own house.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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.
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I don’t even own a car.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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