In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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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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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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In 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.
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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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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 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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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If 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.
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I’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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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