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.
BILL NIGHYIn 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.
BILL NIGHYOne of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHYSomebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYStanding in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHYI generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHYWhen I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
BILL NIGHYI never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHYAnyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHYI’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
BILL NIGHYI don’t even own a car.
BILL NIGHYOpening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHYAnti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
BILL NIGHYActors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHYI’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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