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All Quotes by author - 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. "

" Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person. "

" I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again. "

" I don't even own a car. "

" If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe. "

" 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. "

" I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good. "

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

" I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. "

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

" I like sci-fi. "

" I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves. "

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

" I speed up past mirrors. "

" 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. "

" I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he's tremendous, as a man and as a director. "

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

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

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

" One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff. "

" 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. "

" The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. "

" When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months. "

" When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver. "

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

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

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