Bill Nighy movie quotes

“Minister Rufus Scrimgeour-I won't pretend to be your friend, Mr. Potter. But I'm not your enemy.
Harry Potter-Forgive me minister, but it's a little hard to tell the difference now-a-days.”
Bill Nighy - Minister Rufus Scrimgeour

“Let me tell you what it is I admire about human beings. What I value most is the one virtue they share with gods and animals, and which I will therefore no longer refer to as a virtue. I mean... courage. ”
Bill Nighy - Edmund Brundish

“In the case of biographies, it's better, I find, if they're about good people, whereas novels are much more interesting if they are about nasty people.”
Bill Nighy - Edmund Brundish

“- General Friedrich Fromm: What is it you want?
- General Friedrich Olbricht: I wanted to introduce our new man, Colonel Stauffenberg.
- General Friedrich Fromm: Ah! From Africa. Well, I'd offer you my hand, but I might not get it back.”
Tom Wilkinson - General Friedrich Fromm
Bill Nighy - General Friedrich Olbricht

“- Richard Twat: I trust you've slept well?
- Mr. Johnson: We had rather a rough night, actually.
- Richard Twat: Ah well, the perils of adultery.”
Rik Mayall - Richard Twat
Bill Nighy - Mr. Johnson

“The great and terrible thing about life, there's just so much bloody... potential. All of which is almost certainly nonsense.”
Bill Nighy - Douglas Ainslie

“Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free!”
Bill Nighy - Billy Mack

“Ah, love; a dreadful bond, and yet, so easily severed.”
Bill Nighy - Davy Jones

“Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?”
Bill Nighy - Davy Jones

“- Davy Jones: Ten years, I looked after those who died at sea, and finally, when we could be together again, you weren't there. Why weren't you there?
- Tia Dalma: It is my nature. Would you love me if I was anything but what I am?
- Davy Jones: I do not love you!
- Tia Dalma: Many things you were, Davy Jones, but never cruel.”
Bill Nighy - Davy Jones
Naomie Harris - Tia Dalma

“- Arthur Dent: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world.
- Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.”
Martin Freeman - Arthur Dent
Bill Nighy - Slartibartfast

“The point of replacing Hitler is to negotiate the truce with the Allies. The Allies, I suspect would be more amenable to a truce if we offer it to them before they get to fucking Berlin!”
Bill Nighy - General Friedrich Olbricht

“- Martin Barton: Don't test me, Carlotta. I could drown you too easily.
- La Carlotta: Better to be submerged in bath water than mediocrity. Wouldn't you agree?”
Bill Nighy - Martin Barton
Stephanie Lawrence - La Carlotta

“You turn out to be the fucking love of my life. And to be honest, despite all my complaining, we have had a wonderful life.”

Bill Nighy - Billy Mack

“One soul is not equal to another.”
Bill Nighy - Davy Jones

“When I was young and successful, I was greedy and foolish, and now I'm left with no one. Wrinkled and alone.”
Bill Nighy - Billy Mack

“- Richard Twat: I trust you two both washed.
- Mr. Johnson: Actually, the water was cold.
- Richard Twat: That's no reason not to wash, is it? Good grief, we are British, you know. We invented cold showers to stop people masturbating. Oh, I see, maybe that's why you are so upset about the lack of hot water.”
Rik Mayall - Richard Twat
Bill Nighy - Mr. Johnson

“If we let you carry on running around town, you'll continue to be exceptional and we can't have that. You'll put us all out of a job.”

Bill Nighy - Met Chief Inspector

“There is a good reason why these rules were created, and they are the only reason we have survived this long!”
Bill Nighy - Viktor

“Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?”
Bill Nighy - Davy Jones

“No man on Earth should be so violently in love. It puts him at such a disadvantage.”
Bill Nighy - James Mortmain

“- Slartibartfast: Earthman, you must realize that the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice.
- Arthur Dent: When you say mice, do you mean the little furry white creatures with whiskers, ears, cheese?”
Bill Nighy - Slartibartfast
Martin Freeman - Arthur Dent

“- Billy Mack: Ask me anything you like, I'll tell you the truth.
- Mikey - DJ Interviewer: Best shag you've ever had?
- Billy Mack: Britney Spears... No, only kidding. She was rubbish.”
Bill Nighy - Billy Mack
Marcus Brigstocke - Mikey - DJ Interviewer

“I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love.”
Bill Nighy - Billy Mack

“Who needs Revolutionaries when the Revolution has already been achieved?”
Bill Nighy - Helmut Hoffmann