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

- 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

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

- Bill Nighy

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

- Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

- Bill Nighy

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

- Bill Nighy

I hardly even leave my own house.

- Bill Nighy

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

- Bill Nighy

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

- Bill Nighy

I don't even own a car.

- Bill Nighy

I like sci-fi.

- 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.'

- 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

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.

- 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.

- Bill Nighy

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.

- Bill Nighy

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

- Bill Nighy

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

- 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.

- Bill Nighy

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

- Bill Nighy