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.
play lucky wide
I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
father order play
I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.
actors extroverts cases
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
men world three
There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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.
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.
thinking careers phones
I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.
later-in-life fame
It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
thinking people theatre
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.