One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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, ‘
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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