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.
BILL NIGHYYou get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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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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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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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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 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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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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