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.”

“When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.”

“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.”

“My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.”

“Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.”

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

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

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

“I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.”

“If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.”

“I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.”

“Jerry 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.”

“I speed up past mirrors.”

“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.”

“The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.”

“I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!”

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

“When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.”

“I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.”

“The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.”