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.
BILL NIGHYI’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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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 really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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 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.
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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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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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