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
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.
people computer weird-people
I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
clothes enthusiasm casual
When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
thinking feelings important
I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. 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.
honest grim bad-things
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
order guitar singing
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
people agree satisfying
When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
degrees hysterical easy
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
odds long actors
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
jobs gambling sick
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.
couple play months
When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
dark thinking play
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.
jobs people rooms
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.