Bill Nighy Quotes
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When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
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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.
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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.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
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Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.
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I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
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If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I'm not a royal family watcher.
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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.
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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.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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.'
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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.
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I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!