Bill Nighy

So you could go from being bored to being asleep.

And there's nothing wrong with being asleep because apparently I'm very handy for insomniacs.

I'm very flattered by your question.

Most people, when I say that I exercise, and this is a real thing, in fact, people as I speak in this room are doing it now.

They're holding their hands over their face because they're laughing.

Just the idea, if you put my name and the word exercise in the same sentence, I promise you, everyone who knows me, and some people that don't actually know me at all, burst out laughing.

And then the next thing they do is they say,

What do you wear?

Like I'm going to exercise in a two-piece navy suit or something.

And I have to explain that I wear a pair of training trousers.

And somebody said, you mean jogging pants?

I said, no, I don't mean jogging pants.

I don't own jogging pants.

I don't even know what they are.

And I wear a series of navy blue T-shirts and a pair of pomegranate Puma, reaching out for sponsorship, Puma trainers.

I used to be philosophically opposed to physical exercise of any kind.

And I thought it was vulgar of people because it seemed to suggest that they wanted to prolong their life, which I thought was embarrassing and sort of bad manners.

And people would always say, you know, but, you know, it'll make you feel better.

It's good for your mind, you know, all this stuff.

I thought I was going to smoke until I died.