You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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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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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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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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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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