Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I don’t even own a car.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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 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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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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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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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.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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