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
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.
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.
social crisis knows
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
crazy soul rhythm-and-blues
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
elderly way cases
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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.
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.
numbers love-actually people
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.
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.
men relax buttons
I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
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."
pirate radio remember
I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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.
long people mind
When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.