Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHYI’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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.
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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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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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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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I don’t even own a car.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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