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
numbers love-actually people
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.
heart writing people
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.
people stage walks
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
people proud
I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
people computer weird-people
I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
people agree satisfying
When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
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.
love-actually people done
More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
people looks ifs
If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
compassion two people
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
thinking people theatre
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
real believe people
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
people want film
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
long people mind
When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.