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.
BILL NIGHYAnti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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 love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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