I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHYThe way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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 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 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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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