Tom Courtenay

My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no…

— Tom Courtenay

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

— Tom Courtenay

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…

— Tom Courtenay

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past…

— Tom Courtenay

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking…

— Tom Courtenay

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing…

— Tom Courtenay

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.

— Tom Courtenay

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at…

— Tom Courtenay

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the…

— Tom Courtenay

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

— Tom Courtenay

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

— Tom Courtenay

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

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End,…

— Tom Courtenay