Bill Nighy Quotes

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

You prepare each week to win, and for it to finally pay off, it is a big relief.

There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

Everything I did in my life was about the title, but that's too much pressure over me. When I relaxed more, even my performance became better.

I went on an audition. I walked in the room, and it was Leslie Mann with Judd Apatow. It was intimidating.

I feel that everything I dreamed of became reality. I feel like nothing is on my shoulders any more.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

For me, personally, on the inside, the best moment was winning my first championship.

We don't get tired of winning titles. On the contrary it's a lot of fun.

I don't feel pressure.

Winning is fun.

I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

The Fitzpatrick home is happy when we're winning.

I'm happy, and when I score the goals, it is a bonus for me.

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.