170 Quotes by Bill Nighy

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.

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.

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