Tom Hollander Quotes

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• Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

  Tom Hollander

  Creative, Actors, Able

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• For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

  Tom Hollander

  People, Complacency, Satisfaction

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• I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

  Tom Hollander

  Decision, Decision Making, Verge

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• I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

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  Thinking, Careers, Lucky

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• Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

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  Kids, Men, Eggs

  "Tom Hollander on why Rev is his proudest achievement". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

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  Stars, People, Tvs

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

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  Sadness, Unhappy, Brushes

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• I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

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  Opportunity, People, Feelings

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• The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

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  Danger, Define You

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• Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

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  Character, People, Littles

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• I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.

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  Sweet, Hyenas, Villain

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• I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

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  Fate, Tv Shows, London

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• If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.

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  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.

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  Years, Looks, Stuff

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• You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

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  Thinking, Done, Proud

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• Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head. With this process, you get to let it out of the box a little bit.

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  Running, Scene, Comical

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• I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

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  Thinking, Satisfied, Performances

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• If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

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  Lapses, Spirit, Miserable

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• The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

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  Like You, New Car

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.

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  Thinking, World, Politician

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• You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

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  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

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  Spiritual, Doors, Church

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• I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

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  People, Want, Nervous

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• I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

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  Icons, Saws, Dylan

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• In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

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  Good Day, Bad Day, Church

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