Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy
William Francis "Bill" Nighyis an English actor. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womaniser Prof. Mark Carleton...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 December 1949
CityCaterham, England
fun mean play
There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.
car
I don't even own a car.
meaningful real thinking
I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.
rain acting machines
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
christmas auditions actors
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
men kind shirts
I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
beautiful rain glamorous
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
people stage walks
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
people proud
I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
play trying fifty
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.'
actors ruins
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
good-night proud rewards
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.
stories scripts lucky
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.