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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
dad style attractive
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
play world lucky
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.
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.
girl memories fall
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
men world three
There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
fun mean play
There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.