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.
BILL NIGHYI generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I 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.
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