In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
BILL NIGHYPrince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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