Bill Nighy

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

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

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

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 was never a hippy, per se.

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

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

I'm not a royal family watcher.

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

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

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

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

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

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

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.

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 never watch my own films.

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

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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't even own a car.

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

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.

I like sci-fi.

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

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

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

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

I speed up past mirrors.

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

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.