Bill Nighy

I don't even own a car.

— Bill Nighy

I speed up past mirrors.

— Bill Nighy

I never watch my own films.

— Bill Nighy

I like sci-fi.

— Bill Nighy

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

— Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

— Bill Nighy

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

I hardly even leave my own house.

— Bill Nighy

I was never a hippy, per se.

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

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

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

— Bill Nighy

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

— Bill Nighy

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.

— Bill Nighy

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight…

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's…

— Bill Nighy

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy…

— 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'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have…

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end…

— Bill Nighy

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I…

— Bill Nighy

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those…

— Bill Nighy

I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were…

— Bill Nighy

There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're…

— Bill Nighy

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think,…

— Bill Nighy

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help…

— Bill Nighy

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead…

— Bill Nighy

I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the…

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy

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

— Bill Nighy