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 NIGHYIf I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I 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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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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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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