charlie: my next person is david hare. what is it about the two of you?bill: it is the great good fortune of my career, my association with david hare , which started when i was 30 and i did a television film with him. when i read the first thing i'd ever read by david hare, it kind of rang in me in a way great writing or great art often does. it was almost as if it were familiar to me. as if, if you would have given me time, i would have gotten around to saying those things. in terms of its attitude toward the world were things that i was already thinking. the elegance and beauty and wit. he writes the best jokes in town. it was something that was very kind of familiar to me. it was the first time i had read a contemporary script where it really blew me away. that -- david counted recently and i think it is 10 things we have done together now. i treasure that. charlie: theater, film, and television. bill: yes. i did "the dreams of leaving" on the television and i went and did a play called "the map of the world." i came here to new york many years later

she is pristine. >> basically david hare said who could succeed bill nighy. answer. bill nighy. >> well that's very good. >> enough. tell me who tomorrow sergeant is? tom sergeant is what you call a self-made man. and he's built up a very succession-- successful restaurant empire. he also owns hotels. he is extraordinarily successful. he made an enormous amount of money. he was married to a woman he saw modelling in a magazine for many years. they had a family. he met and fell in love with the kerry mulligan character his wife then died. he he is someone who has not survived his success totally intact. and his success has been core rosive in the way that it sometimes is with people who have-- who have been very lucky. he has made the mistake of managing that it's something he did. that it's something that it's more than luck. that it's something, it confirms for him something which is not all together true which is that he is in some way unique and therefore is at liberty to pontificate in a way that is not all together attractive. >> rose: but it's not all luck that

and then it was suggested to me that -- david hare said to me, "could you possibly make a a cushion ford my aunt could come to my house and say, 'what a nice cushion' but not realize what was written on it?" so i'm not even going to tell you what was written on it. it was frightfully rude. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it was? yeah. >> it worked. it worked. >> jimmy: wait until you get that present in the mail. absolutely. i want to show a clip here. this is you and dame maggie smith as well in "the second best exotic marigold hotel." it's a super blast. check this out. >> sometimes it seems to me that the difference between what we want and what we fear is the width of an eyelash. >> i'm sorry. were you talking to me? >> well, the hearing's gone then obviously. >> yeah, along with your backbone. >> i don't know why i tell you anything. >> because i'm older and wiser. >> 19 days older. >> that's the entire lifespan of a wasp. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "were you talking to me?" it's all lines like that. it's really, really fun. and it ends with a great bollywood ending. and richard gere