If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
BILL NIGHYTry to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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 love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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