You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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