Quotes by Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
– Bill Nighy
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
– Bill Nighy
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.
– Bill Nighy
You come to realise there is this huge disparity between what you think about yourself and your work and what other people think about you and your work, at first you either think they're insane or that it's a conspiracy to make you look stupid. Or maybe, just maybe, they're right, and you're sometimes quite good at what you do.
– Bill Nighy
When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
– Bill Nighy
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
– 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.
– Bill Nighy
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.
– Bill Nighy
I'm not a royal family watcher.
– Bill Nighy
I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
– Bill Nighy
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
– Bill Nighy
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.
– Bill Nighy
I don't even own a car.
– Bill Nighy
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.
– Bill Nighy
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.'
– Bill Nighy