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
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.
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.
auditions actors really-happy
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.
great lots parts
The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.
man worked
I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he's tremendous, as a man and as a director.
great
I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
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.
long mysterious fascism
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
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.
soul black enthusiasm
I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.
pirate radio remember
I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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.
play lucky wide
I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.