I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
BILL NIGHYI don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
BILL NIGHYIn one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHYSo there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
BILL NIGHYI got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHYI wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
BILL NIGHYAs you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
BILL NIGHYThe way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHYI never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHYI don’t even own a car.
BILL NIGHYThey’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
BILL NIGHYA way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
BILL NIGHYOne of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHYI don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
BILL NIGHYI’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
BILL NIGHYI admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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