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
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.
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.
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.
pirate radio remember
I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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.
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."
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.
cute long watches
I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.
daughter sleep thinking
To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."
character ideas agendas
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
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.
girl difficult seeing
When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.