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.
BILL NIGHYYou get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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