I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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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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.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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