Bill Nighy Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 12, 1949

Topics

WorkHomeThinkYouGoTalk

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

FamilyMotherSingleUpI Was Raised

The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a film, that's kind of it. I think, as in real life, when you're getting to know someone, it starts off slowly.

Andrew Haigh

LifeTimeThinkReachSomeoneYou

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Anna D. Shapiro

StoryBetterUnderstandingPowerful

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Meshell Ndegeocello

ChildrenOptimismSimplicityWish

I always need to keep moving.

Ana de Armas

MovingKeep MovingNeedAlwaysKeep

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

Rita Rudner

LaughPushYouTableWantMiddle

I still like to play songs from my Silk Route days at concerts.

Mohit Chauhan

PlayDaysSilkStillConcertsRoute

No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.

Debra Granik

LightGreenStartDocumentaryEver

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Chris Patten

PoliticsI AmIntellectualAlwaysAm

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

Bobby Keys

InspirationalPlayRhythmPlaying

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Ava DuVernay

TruthYouCreateWillOutGet

Women have everything they want, and they've never been so unhappy.

Mort Sahl

WomenUnhappyWantNeverEverything

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