The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End,… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all -… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore. — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me. — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
![“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.” quote by Tom Courtenay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a3/tom-courtenay-34985_age_my-emotional-investment-started-when-i-r_73411.jpg)
