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 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.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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 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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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 probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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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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I don’t even own a car.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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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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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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