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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
Bill Nighy
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Bill Nighy
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 12
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William Francis Bill Nighy
William Francis Nighy
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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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There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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 used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.
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When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, Please don't let this end.
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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.
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I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
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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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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'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
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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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