Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got.

— Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy Quotes

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.

— Bill Nighy

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

— Bill Nighy

You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’

— Bill Nighy

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

— Bill Nighy

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.

— Bill Nighy

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

— Bill Nighy

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.

— Bill Nighy

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.

— Bill Nighy

From my point of view, it’s very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say “not act,” what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

— Bill Nighy

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.

— Bill Nighy

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.

— Bill Nighy

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.

— Bill Nighy

I’m lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

— Bill Nighy

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

— Bill Nighy

I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

— Bill Nighy

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

— Bill Nighy

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.

— Bill Nighy

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.

— Bill Nighy

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.”

— Bill Nighy

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.

— Bill Nighy
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