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
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
In America, people come up to me and say, 'Hi, Sir Humph!' — Nigel Hawthorne America Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood was a most delightful man to work with. — Nigel Hawthorne Clint eastwood Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that the camera can get right into your soul, and you have to be ready for it. — Nigel Hawthorne Camera Copy Share Image
I am 65 now and the world is just ahead of me at a time when most people are retiring. — Nigel Hawthorne Ahead Copy Share Image
I used to get notes from directors, 'Please, Nigel, smile at the curtain calls.' I hate them so much. — Nigel Hawthorne Curtain 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
On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from… — Nigel Hawthorne Cinema 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
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
Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating. — Nigel Hawthorne Acting Copy Share Image
I had my doubts about 'Yes, Prime Minister' being successful in the U.S. because your system of government is so different than… — Nigel Hawthorne Good 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
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 whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an… — Nigel Hawthorne Actor Copy Share Image
I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's… — Nigel Hawthorne Actor Copy Share Image
I used to bury myself in character parts and put on a lot of makeup and use a lot of props. At… — Nigel Hawthorne Character Copy Share Image
I'm not looking at any stage stuff at all. I'm going to give that a break for a while, if not forever,… — Nigel Hawthorne Done Copy Share Image
One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man. — Nigel Hawthorne Doing Copy Share Image
If I hadn't done 'Shadowlands,' which was a sort of emotional release for me as a person as well as an actor,… — Nigel Hawthorne Actor 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 Accept Copy Share Image
