I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHYAnyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHYI did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYYou get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHYI’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
BILL NIGHYStanding in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHYI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHYI don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
BILL NIGHYI hardly even leave my own house.
BILL NIGHYThe 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 NIGHYMore people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYI love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
BILL NIGHYAs you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
BILL NIGHYYou 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.”
BILL NIGHYI’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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