Bill Nighy - Best Quotes

Christmas

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.

Respect

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.

Bill Nighy

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.

Home

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.'

Bill Nighy

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.'

History

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.

Bill Nighy

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.

Famous

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

Bill Nighy

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

Famous

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Bill Nighy

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Family

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

Bill Nighy

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

Family

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Family

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

Bill Nighy

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

Dad

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant and it was infectious.

Bill Nighy

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant and it was infectious.

Car

I don't even own a car.

Bill Nighy

I don't even own a car.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Author: Bill Nighy

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.

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.

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 seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

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

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

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

I'm not a royal family watcher.

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

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant and it was infectious.

I don't even own a car.