Bill Nighy
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.Collection: Christmas
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.Collection: Famous
I don't even own a car.Collection: Car
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Famous
I never watch my own films.
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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.
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.
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 I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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 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.
Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.
I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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 have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
I speed up past mirrors.
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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.
I like sci-fi.
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
I hardly even leave my own house.
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
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.
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.
There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
I was never a hippy, per se.
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.