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.”
BILL NIGHYI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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