black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
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.
BILL NIGHY

Auditorium Feelings Important 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
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, ‘
BILL NIGHY

Anything Regret Say Smoking
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.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
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
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
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Ruins Wanting
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
I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHY

Faces Helpless Romance
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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHY

Buttons Men Relax
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
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHY

Cases Elderly Way
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.
BILL NIGHY

Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
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

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Nighy Quotes