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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
BILL NIGHY

Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
I’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 NIGHY

Giving Hard Thinking Times
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHY

Generally People Proud
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Ruins Wanting
Actors 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 NIGHY

Actor Always Home Thinking Work
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.
BILL NIGHY

Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHY

Hunger Way West
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 NIGHY

Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
I’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 NIGHY

Father Obvious Everyone Order Play
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
BILL NIGHY

Groups Politician Want
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHY

Fall Girl Memories
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.
BILL NIGHY

Daughter Sleep Thinking
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHY

Inspirational Motivational Rain
If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Auditions Really Happy
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.
BILL NIGHY

Film People Want
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.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Jobs Sick
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
BILL NIGHY

Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHY

Couple Months Play
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHY

Called Goes never
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
BILL NIGHY

Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHY

People Theatre Thinking
Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
BILL NIGHY

Recover Smoke Stop
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHY

Buttons Men Relax
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.
BILL NIGHY

Alarms Good Night Proud
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.
BILL NIGHY

Looks Technology Thinking
I’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 NIGHY

Lucky Scripts Stories

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