Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

Bill Nighy's Popular Quotes

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

- Bill Nighy

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

- Bill Nighy

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

- Bill Nighy

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

- Bill Nighy

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 h…

- 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

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

- Bill Nighy

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

- Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

- Bill Nighy