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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

Bill Nighy

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