Bill Nighy Quotes

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Want
  • Down
  • Mental Illness

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Where

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Lucky
  • Really
  • Superhero

• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  

  Paracelsus
  • World
  • Man
  • Earth

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Man
  • Law
  • Couple

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Life started getting good when I started making money.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Like
  • Looks

• One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

  

  John W. Snow
  • Important
  • High
  • Growth

• The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

  

  David Amram
  • People
  • Art

• Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • People
  • Dad

• The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • People
  • Space
  • Bored

• I think what’s really unsettling for me is that for most artists, especially artists that are not pop artists, they can’t stop touring. Literally, they don’t have food if they stop touring. I think most artists wouldn’t mind recorded music being free as long as no one was getting paid for that music.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Artists
  • Touring
  • Recorded

• I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Weird