I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesnt help me. Precedents dont inform my experience. – Bill Nighy
It cant be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, its like Christmas. – Bill Nighy
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar. – Bill Nighy
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. – Bill Nighy
WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens