I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHYI never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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 NIGHYThe way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
BILL NIGHYI don’t even own a car.
BILL NIGHYI’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
BILL NIGHYIn life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
BILL NIGHYI find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHYOne of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
BILL NIGHYI’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
BILL NIGHYWith stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
BILL NIGHYOpening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHYI’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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 am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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.
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