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.’
BILL NIGHYYou have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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’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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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