Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 "I don`t smoke now, which is marvellous. My only addictions are caffeine and sugar." "I even wear a suit for improvisation workshops, rolling around. Well, acting`s a white-collar job, you know? You wear a suit."
"I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good."
"I speculate to be sociable, but it`s a very big deal for me that any work I do should be well received. As for how people generally perceive me, I don`t know."
"I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I`d meet beautiful women in the rain."
"I`ve always slightly worried about 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."
"The British consul shipped me home for 25 quid and I had to pay my father back, he was a wee bit cross." (about being in Paris)
"You come to realise there is this huge disparity between what you think about yourself and your work and what other people think about you and your work, at first you either think they`re insane or that it`s a conspiracy to make you look stupid. Or maybe, just maybe, they`re right, and you`re sometimes quite good at what you do."
"You know, there may be periods when you`re unemployed. Great. You`ll never know what will happen from one minute to the next. Yeah, fabulous. You don`t know what money you`re going to be making in 25 years` time. Yeah, baby! It`s like being a gambler, and when I was 18, that was music."
I am a world-class procrastinator. I`m only an actor because I`ve been putting off being a writer for 35 years.
Trivia
(September 2008) Filming Wild Target with Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint.
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Appears in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man`s Chest (2006), the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), opposite Orlando Bloom, who appeared in the Lord of the Rings films. Nighy appeared in the radio version.
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Has Dupuytren`s Contracture, a hereditary condition which causes the ring and little fingers of each hand to be permanently bent inwards towards the palm.
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He has played three different undead characters. He was a zombie in Shaun of the Dead. He was a vampire in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution. He plays Davy Jones in the two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.
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He is a huge fan of The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.
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He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2000 season) for Best Actor in his performance of Blue/Orange at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Stage.
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In Notes on a Scandal (2006), he appears opposite Cate Blanchett. He and Blanchett have both appeared in adaptations of The Lord of the Rings. Nighy played Sam Gamgee in the BBC Radio broadcast, while Blanchett plays Galadriel in Peter Jackson`s films.
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Only two BBC radio productions have also been turned into major motion pictures: The Lord of the Rings and The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy. Nighy appeared in the radio version of Rings and the film version of Hitchhiker`s Guide.
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Played the part of "Sam Gamgee" in the original BBC radio production of The Lord of the Rings alongside Ian Holm as "Frodo". Peter Jackson (director of the The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)) gave this version to those members of his cast who hadn`t read the book.
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Was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004.
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