Tom Wilkinson Quotes

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• If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
• Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
• One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.
• Most stuff you can do standing on your head.
• If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of…
• All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
• I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse…
• I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if…
• I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting.…
• It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
• Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.
• There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you!…
• When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
• You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I…
• You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so…

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