Top 64 Quotes by Bill Nighy

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

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

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

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

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

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

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

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 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.