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
jobs crazy thinking
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."
doe way absence
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.
squids guy acting
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.
long mysterious fascism
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
war school ideas
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.
soul black enthusiasm
I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.
pirate radio remember
I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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.
play lucky wide
I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
thinking boys fabulous
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.
memories play lines
I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.
looks rehearsal fans
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.
writing thinking gambling
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.
thinking hard-times giving
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.