“I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.” ThinkingWayFeelsImportantEndsFeelingsLinesRoomsSceneFillingProjectionDroppingAuditoriums Author:Bill Nighy
“I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.” ThinkingWellsLooksKindTechnologyYeahBackgroundsBeing TrueRepresentationImaginative Author:Bill Nighy
“I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.” ThinkingBoysFabulous Author:Bill Nighy
“You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."” ThinkingWellsJobsRememberCoursesCrazyMad Author:Bill Nighy
“To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."” ThinkingWantEndsCausesSleepSeriousPleaseDaughterEntertainingGoing To SleepBedtimeOur DaughterYour DaughterEnchantingCabaret Author:Bill Nighy
“I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.” PeopleThinkingUsedBuiltHollywoodTheatreOld Days Author:Bill Nighy
“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.” PeopleThinkingTwoPlayHoursDarkHalfJokesMannersInvitesRetiredHalf HoursBad Manners Author:Bill Nighy
“I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.” ThinkingGivingHardNaturalWorstCriticsHard TimesPerfectly Natural Author:Bill Nighy
“I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.” ThinkingWritingKindStandingAdmireGamblingImprovising Author:Bill Nighy
“I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.” ThinkingEndsCareersPaperPhonesBlankSheets Author: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.'” ThinkingHomeTurnsActors Author: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.” ThinkingRealSeemsUsedMeaningfulPrize Author:Bill Nighy
