I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHYI got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very 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.
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 NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHYI think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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 NIGHYI don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
BILL NIGHYPrince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
BILL NIGHYI’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
BILL NIGHYIf I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
BILL NIGHYYou get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHYAnti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
BILL NIGHYI did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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