One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHYOne of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHYI never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHYOne 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.
BILL NIGHYYou 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 NIGHYWhen you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHYI find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHYTo 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.
BILL NIGHYI’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
BILL NIGHYI’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
BILL NIGHYI have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
BILL NIGHYI 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.’
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 NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHYI’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
BILL NIGHYI don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
BILL NIGHY