I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
BILL NIGHYI got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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’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 one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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.’
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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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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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 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.
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