Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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