You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHYWhen a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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