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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.

Bill Nighy

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

Buttons Men Relax
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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
BILL NIGHY

Fifty Play Quoted Trying
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
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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Attractive Dad Style
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
BILL NIGHY

Pirate Probably Radio Remember
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Jobs Sick
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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Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Opening Play Two
I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Anybody Spent Time
In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
BILL NIGHY

Love Actually Numbers People
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.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHY

Bed might Very Good
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself
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 don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased

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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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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