Top 33 Bill Nighy Quotes

I hardly even leave my own house.

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

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

I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

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

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

I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.

There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

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

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

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.

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

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

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’ve worked with Len Wiseman before, on the ‘Underworld’ series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he’s tremendous, as a man and as a director.

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.

There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it’s more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you’re playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it’s surprising what you come up with.

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

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 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 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.

When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

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.’