If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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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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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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