My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than… — Nigel Hawthorne Father Copy Share Image
My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure. — Nigel Hawthorne Authoritarian Copy Share Image
My private life has never been a secret. I've never been a closet queen. — Nigel Hawthorne Life Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear that Harry Belafonte is out there. It forces me not to see the audience as an anonymous… — Nigel Hawthorne Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly. — Nigel Hawthorne Computers Copy Share Image
I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think… — Nigel Hawthorne Acting Copy Share Image
When you set yourself up to be apart from rest of mankind, you're in danger of crashing further than they ever could.… — Nigel Hawthorne Danger Copy Share Image
Trevor and I had been going to awards ceremonies for years. People knew. Look, if you don't get married by age 65,… — Nigel Hawthorne Age Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who has a paucity of confidence as a person. — Nigel Hawthorne Confidence Copy Share Image
Ian McKellen always said I should come out. But why? I make my living playing heterosexuals. — Nigel Hawthorne Always Copy Share Image
I started to admit vulnerabilities and things that I was trying to hide before. Shyness, anxiety, guilt and all those things that… — Nigel Hawthorne Guilt Copy Share Image
Alan Bennett is a very quirkish man. He laughs in a self-effacing way, which stops you getting close. If you embrace him,… — Nigel Hawthorne Close Copy Share Image
I would never have told my father a lie. We were brought up to be very truthful. I would never lie today.… — Nigel Hawthorne Father Copy Share Image
Just as Jack Lewis could go through a whole life without meeting someone that he loved, so you can go through whole… — Nigel Hawthorne Career Copy Share Image
I do a play a year, or every 18 months, and you get your comedies and your dramas, but you hardly get… — Nigel Hawthorne Anything Copy Share Image
In America, people come up to me and say, 'Hi, Sir Humph!' — Nigel Hawthorne America Copy Share Image
I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become… — Nigel Hawthorne Blue Copy Share Image
I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father - who was a doctor… — Nigel Hawthorne Doctor Copy Share Image
The best way to get people to accept you is to move about the community and show them there's nothing to be… — Nigel Hawthorne Best Copy Share Image
In my mornings I can do what I like - go to art galleries, museums and things, go to lunch with people. — Nigel Hawthorne Art Copy Share Image
As the years have gone by, I have become more confident, but I'm still not completely at ease with myself. — Nigel Hawthorne Become Copy Share Image
