Bill Nighy

“In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.”

“If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.”

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

“One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.”

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

“One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.”

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

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

“I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I don't even own a car.”

“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.”

“I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he's tremendous, as a man and as a director.”

“You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'”

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

“I like sci-fi.”

“One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.”