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William Francis Nighy (pronounced /naɪ/; born 12 December 1949) is an English actor and voice artist. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womaniser Prof. Mark Carleton.

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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.

Kinds, Like, Looks, Technology, Think, Thinking

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home. '

Actors, Home, Taking, Talk, Think, Thinking

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

Bruckheimer, Film, Films, Jerry, People, Want

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

Difficult, Girl, Seeing, Skint

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.

Agendas, Character, Delivering, Idea, Ideas, Kind

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

Fall, Girl, Memories, Mountain, Seven, Snow

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.

Meaningful, Real, Sort, Think, Thinking

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

Doe, Performs, Result, Way, West

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

Family, Kids, Kids Movie, Like, Movies

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

Average, Knows, Like, Perception, Skewed

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

Goes On, Net, Web

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

Big, Black, Enthusiasm, Soul

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

Actors, Airports, Hare, Ideas, Myth, Two

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.

Fan, Fans, Like, Looks, Rehearsal

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Actors, Happy, Long, Odds, Rich

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.

Bits, Consciously, Father, Order, Parts, Play

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

Agree, Discover, People, Satisfying

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.

Football, Kids, Slightly, Sorry

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

Buttons, Man, Men, Relax, Shirt

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

Actually, Done, Everything, Love Actually, People

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