Latest Bill Nighy Quotes from Interviews

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• From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

  Bill Nighy

  Mean, Views, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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 Nighy

  Doe, Way, Absence

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Gambling

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

  Bill Nighy

  Cute, Long, Watches

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I'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 Nighy

  Hard Times, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."

  Bill Nighy

  Daughter, Sleep, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• 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. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."

  Bill Nighy

  Self, Yesterday, Anxiety

  Source: collider.com

• I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.

  Bill Nighy

  Father, Order, Play

  Source: collider.com

• I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

  Bill Nighy

  Crazy, Soul, Rhythm And Blues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  People, Mind, Want

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

• 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. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.

  Bill Nighy

  Clothes, Want, Suits

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

• Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

  Bill Nighy

  Zero, America, People

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

• 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.

  Bill Nighy

  Auditions, Actors, Really Happy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You 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 Nighy

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

• 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.

  Bill Nighy

  Squids, Guy, Acting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy Is Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 20, 2007.

• Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

  Bill Nighy

  Long, Mysterious, Fascism

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.

  Bill Nighy

  War, School, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

  Bill Nighy

  Soul, Black, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

  Bill Nighy

  Pirate, Radio, Remember

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

  Bill Nighy

  Numbers, Love Actually, People

  Source: collider.com

• I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Lucky, Variety

  Source: collider.com

• I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

  Bill Nighy

  Boys, Thinking, Fabulous

  Source: collider.com

• I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

  Bill Nighy

  Technology, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Lucky, Use

  Source: collider.com