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Bill Nighy
English
Actor
Born:
Dec 12
,
1949
About
Always
Like
Me
People
You
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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.
Bill Nighy
Man
Seriously
Sleeves
Kind
Disabled
Know
Operate
Without
How
Am
Shirt
Jacket
I'm not a royal family watcher.
Bill Nighy
Family
Royal
Royal Family
I speed up past mirrors.
Bill Nighy
Past
Speed
Mirrors
Up
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.
Bill Nighy
Life
Kindness
Great
Too Late
People
Compassion
Long
Important
Reputation
Too
Late
Humour
Spent
Relevant
Status
No Guarantee
Someone
More
Long List
Putting
Stuff
Name
Qualities
Learned
List
After
Far
Regrets
Many
Letters
Guarantee
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
Bill Nighy
Good
Someone
Mistaken
Got
Bed
Very
Which
Might
Who
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
Bill Nighy
Beautiful
Rain
Women
Thought
Journalist
Meet
Glamorous
Beautiful Women
Wanted
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.
Bill Nighy
Me
Seen
Sorry
Worried
Slightly
Kids
Never
Football
Know
House
Because
Around
Felt
Always
Done
Anything
Who
Actor
Play
Play Football
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
Bill Nighy
Time
People
Walk
Stage
Every
Every Time
Know
Terrified
Famous
Famous People
Really
Who
I like sci-fi.
Bill Nighy
Like
Sci-Fi
More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
Bill Nighy
Love
Me
People
Seen
Else
Everything
Saw
Everything Else
More
More People
Point
Had
Up
Than
Done
Ever
Actually
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.
Bill Nighy
Better
Shape
Never
Like
Because
Always
Been
Than
Going
Anything
Body
Reasons
Keen
Presents
Suit
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
Bill Nighy
Me
You
Setting
Crisis
See
Wearing
Know
Sort
Any
Social
Then
Ever
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
Bill Nighy
Character
You
Way
Kind
Some
Delivering
Perfectly
Idea
Like
Supposed
Sort
Agenda
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
Bill Nighy
Degree
Nothing
Easy
Fine
About
Hysterical
Notoriety
I hardly even leave my own house.
Bill Nighy
Own
My Own
House
Leave
Even
Hardly
I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
Bill Nighy
Myself
Great
Young
Enthusiast
About
Inventing
Never
Had
Look
How
Am
Real
Been
Very
I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.
Bill Nighy
Time
Spend
Lot
Anybody
I was never a hippy, per se.
Bill Nighy
Per
Never
Hippy
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
Bill Nighy
Experience
Assumed
Extrovert
One Of The Things
About
Case
Never
Almost
Which
Actor
Things
When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
Bill Nighy
Family
You
Girl
Difficult
Seeing
Just
Even
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
Bill Nighy
Life
You
Ruin
Wanting
Your
Actor
I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
Bill Nighy
Myself
Politicians
Group
Any
Want
Specific
Associate
I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
Bill Nighy
Family
Kids
Like
Being
Movies
I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
Bill Nighy
People
Generally
Like
Proud
Things
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.
Bill Nighy
Jokes
People
Dark
Joke
Half
Sit
Manners
Think
Those
Tell
Bad
Bad Manners
Retired
Invite
Hours
Half Hours
Without
Anymore
Them
Two
Plays
I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
Bill Nighy
Everything
Find
Only
Daunting
Animation
Process
Dislike
Much
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