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I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

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Bill Nighy
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 12
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Dub Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Caterham
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William Francis Bill Nighy
William Francis Nighy
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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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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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I'm not a royal family watcher.
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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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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
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I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.
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When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.
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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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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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It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
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