Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
BILL NIGHYStanding in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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