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
vampire stories likes
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
self yesterday anxiety
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."
goes-on
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.
auditions actors really-happy
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.
men relax buttons
I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
beautiful simple ideas
I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.
zero america people
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.
regret smoking say-anything
One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
kindness regret compassion
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. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
light black able
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.
clothes looks want
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.
social crisis knows
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
average perception knows
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
attention pay needs
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.