Bill Nighy Quotes

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.