Bill Nighy Quotes

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.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

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

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

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

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 had in mind.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

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.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

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.

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.

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one.

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.