Tom Wilkinson Quotes

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

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One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

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It is the first time I've ever been in a dress. And it's terrible, well, it's first of all, you kind of, you look at it, and you think, who do I look like? There is a moment of recognition. And it's not quite, and it's, who do I look like? And you think, I got it after, you know, looking at a photograph of me, and I thought, it's my mother. I look like my mother.

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I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

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When I very first started acting, at university, I thought I could do anything. Because you are so ignorant, you don't know what a good production should be. You don't know what the rules are. And then, when you start doing it professionally, you learn the rules and become more intimidated.

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If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you.. Then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

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I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

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If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

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