I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHYIf I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Actors 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.’
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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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 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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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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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 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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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