Top 64 Quotes by Bill Nighy

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

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.

I don't even own a car.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

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

I'm not a royal family watcher.

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.'

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

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.

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.