Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHYOpening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHYI don’t even own a car.
BILL NIGHYI wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
BILL NIGHYActors 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 NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
BILL NIGHYI used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
BILL NIGHYOne 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, ‘
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.
BILL NIGHYIf I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
BILL NIGHYI don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
BILL NIGHYI have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHYYou can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHYMore people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYI’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
BILL NIGHYMy dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
BILL NIGHYI used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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