As the years have gone by, I have become more confident, but I'm still not completely at ease with myself. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals. — Nigel Hawthorne 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 Copy Share Image
Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much. — Nigel Hawthorne Academy award 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 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
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 had no financial support from my parents, but, I suppose, I did have moral support - although they really didn't know… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I can't grumble. I've been very content with the way things have gone. I may have minor quibbles as we all have,… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
People still talk about 'Yes, Minister.' Americans, too; they love it. It was a happy period for me and it did change… — Nigel Hawthorne Change 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
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
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
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 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
I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even… — Nigel Hawthorne Actor 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
I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we… — Nigel Hawthorne Gay 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
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
I've never been afraid of being vulnerable on stage. It's a large part of life, and I think it's being dishonest to… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It's like the Boy Scouts' motto, be prepared. You've got to be ready when the moment is offered. If you're not, you… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think you start in middle life to recognize your vulnerabilities, if you're lucky. You admit them and people find that interesting. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
