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
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.
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.
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.
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.
later-in-life fame
It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
want groups politician
I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
people want film
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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.
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.