Bill Nighy Quotes

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

I don't take characters home with me.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

I don't like the idea of being a human being, existing, talking to my friends, and having these real human conversations, and then getting to work on a sitcom and turning that part of my brain off.

It’s really very hard to tell people to think at work but not at home.

I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn't become the end-all be-all.

I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.

I barely get any time for myself.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

I work hard, but I also play hard. Everyone needs balance in life.

I think it is up to each one of us to find the time and strike a balance between work and our personal life.