If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I 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.
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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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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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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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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 I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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