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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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.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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 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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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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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’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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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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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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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