Bill Nighy People Quotations

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.

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

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

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

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

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

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

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.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

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.

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

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.