Bill Nighy Quotes

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

Work, Home, Talk

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.
Bill Nighy

Time, Long, Down

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

Respect, Guitar, While

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

Person, Lovely, She

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

Almost, Result, Hunger

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

Hurt, Down, Guitar

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
Bill Nighy

Everything, Find, Process

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.
Bill Nighy

I don't even own a car.
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

History, Experience, Help

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

Time, Anybody, Spend

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
Bill Nighy

Group, Specific, Associate

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

Hard, Find, Around

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

Proud, Generally

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

Good, Someone, Might

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

Life, Idea, Solitude

I hardly even leave my own house.
Bill Nighy

Leave, House, Hardly

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

Often, Perception, Average

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

Nothing, Against, Face

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

Time, Famous, Walk

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

Family, Movies, Kids

I like sci-fi.
Bill Nighy

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

Mind, Press, Bothered

I never watch my own films.
Bill Nighy

I speed up past mirrors.
Bill Nighy

Past, Speed, Mirrors

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: December 12, 1949

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