Bill Nighy Quotes

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

The stage is my first love.

I used to like doing school plays.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

In live stage, the actor lives.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.

Theatre is home - I grew up doing it - and that is never going to change.

I loved plays in school.

I enjoy acting and just love to do my roles - big or small.

I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'

I did my first play when I was 7.

My first school play was 'Perkin and the Pastry Cook' that my primary school put on, and I played a boy, and it was so much fun, and I'd love to play a boy again. I think that would be great.

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.