black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I 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 Nighy

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHY

Cases Elderly Way
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 NIGHY

Mind People Reality Want
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.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
I 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.’
BILL NIGHY

Fifty Play Quoted Trying
When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHY

Difficult Girl Seeing
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHY

Bed might Very Good
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
BILL NIGHY

Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHY

People Theatre Thinking
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHY

Actors Long Odds
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Men Solitary Life
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Opening Play Two
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.
BILL NIGHY

Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
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.
BILL NIGHY

Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Going Looks People
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHY

Called Goes never
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.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People

I 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Nighy Quotes