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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy

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
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.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers
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.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
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
I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
BILL NIGHY

Mind People Reality Want
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHY

Bad Grim Honest Things
One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
BILL NIGHY

Anything Regret Say Smoking
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHY

People Theatre Thinking
I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHY

Faces Helpless Romance
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHY

Buttons Men Relax
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHY

Computer People Weird People
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
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
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
BILL NIGHY

Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
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.’
BILL NIGHY

Actor Always Home Thinking Work

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