If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
BILL NIGHYIf I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
BILL NIGHYI have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHYSomebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYMore people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYI’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHYI generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHYIf I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
BILL NIGHYI don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
BILL NIGHYI have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
BILL NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHYI never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHYI have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHYYou have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHYIn one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHYI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHYPrince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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