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
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."
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.
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.
dark thinking play
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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.
thinking people theatre
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
home thinking actors
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'
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.
play lucky wide
I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
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.