I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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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 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’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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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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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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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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’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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 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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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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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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