Quotes from Bill Nighy

There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.

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

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.

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 way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

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

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

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.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

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

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I speed up past mirrors.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

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

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

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

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.

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 don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

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

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.

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