I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
BILL NIGHYI 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.’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I 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.
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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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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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.
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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’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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