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Bill Nighy Inspirational Quotes (64)

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More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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.
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I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.
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It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
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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 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.'
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
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I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.
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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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I'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.
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