Tom Hollander

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of…

— Tom Hollander

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist.…

— Tom Hollander

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community…

— Tom Hollander

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing,…

— Tom Hollander

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide…

— Tom Hollander

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not…

— Tom Hollander

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

— Tom Hollander

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

— Tom Hollander

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

— Tom Hollander

Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage…

— Tom Hollander

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but…

— Tom Hollander

You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.

— Tom Hollander

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I…

— Tom Hollander

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

— Tom Hollander

If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts,…

— Tom Hollander

I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.

— Tom Hollander

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the…

— Tom Hollander

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed…

— Tom Hollander

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

— Tom Hollander

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and…

— Tom Hollander

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the…

— Tom Hollander

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

— Tom Hollander

Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel…

— Tom Hollander

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

— Tom Hollander

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in…

— Tom Hollander