I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
BILL NIGHYJerry 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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