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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.

Bill Nighy

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Bill Nighy
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 12
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