There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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 love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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