I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesnt help me. Precedents dont inform my experience. – Bill Nighy
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. – Bill Nighy
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage. – Bill Nighy
Im not famous for my back story investigations Im lucky that I work with good writers and its usually in the script. – Bill Nighy
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey