170 Quotes by Bill Nighy

I’m not a royal family watcher.

You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”

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

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

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

I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

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.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

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