“I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in 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.” PeopleWayWritingHeartSpeakEffectsMy HeartAdmireOne WayElegantNaturalismHares Author:Bill Nighy
“I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So 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.” ThinkingWayFeelsImportantEndsFeelingsLinesRoomsSceneFillingProjectionDroppingAuditoriums Author:Bill Nighy
“If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.” IfsWayWellsKindIdeasCharacterSupposed To BeAgendasDeliveringWell Mannered Author:Bill Nighy
“A 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.” WayDoePerformancesAbsenceAdmireDescribingClumsy Author:Bill Nighy
“The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.” WayCasesTreatedElderlyDistressing Author:Bill Nighy
“Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.” WayDoeResultsDirectWestHungerLike Something Author:Bill Nighy