One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience. – Bill Nighy
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way. – 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. – Bill Nighy
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point. – Bill Nighy
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. – Bill Nighy
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true. – Bill Nighy
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. – Bill Nighy
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get. – Bill Nighy
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like. – Bill Nighy
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. – Bill Nighy
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. – Bill Nighy
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life. – Bill Nighy