Tom Wilkinson Quotations

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 confronting it and being brave about it.

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 it didn't happen.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

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 it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

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. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

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! You gotta do a job for them.

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 wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

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 you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Through his relationship with Emily he discovers a satanic presence which reinforces his belief that she is not simply psychotic.

There are forces surrounding this trial ? dark, powerful forces,

When I very first started acting, at university, I thought I could do anything. Because you are so ignorant, you don't know what a good production should be. You don't know what the rules are. And then, when you start doing it professionally, you learn the rules and become more intimidated.

She really went for it and that was great because it gave a certain terror to my performance. She was incredibly vivid.

My agent asked me if I was interested in having a Web site, and I said I didn't want one. I didn't want people prying into my life. I consider myself quite private.

I think what this guy has done is arrange a perfect life, or at least a life he thinks is perfect for him. Once you've done that, and once you've entered into that mindset, it's difficult to unravel it. Would he have done that forever? Well, he loved her, and he's a simple man. He's not a complicated guy or sophisticated like you and me. We would see the writing on the wall very soon.

It has been a tremendous privilege to work with Jennifer,

I think that this character, Father Moore, is embarking on a very difficult chapter of his life and he embraces the future with courage and fortitude and above all, faith,

I thought he was an excellent coach and a great guy.

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

York was a very quiet person who let his on-field actions do the talking.

We don't talk about timelines for two reasons: we consider it proprietary information, and like everyone else we're trying to speed it up.

You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination.

The small car market continues to shrink, ... We've probably stayed with the small cars too long, and that market is not coming back the way we hoped. We need to grow our portfolio if we're going to grow as a company.

I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus.

It is the first time I've ever been in a dress. And it's terrible, well, it's first of all, you kind of, you look at it, and you think, who do I look like? There is a moment of recognition. And it's not quite, and it's, who do I look like? And you think, I got it after, you know, looking at a photograph of me, and I thought, it's my mother. I look like my mother.

It's a very simple and rather sort of a primitive feeling when you read a script.

I'm temperamentally suited to the business of acting. I'm quite fatalistic. If it's not happening, it's not happening, and there's very little you can do.

I have talent. I know it. I've been doing this for 30 years. But at the same time, you not only have to be good; you have to be good in hits.

The English locution you are familiar with, the body language and all those sorts of things, are denied you, because Americans don't talk in that highly nuanced, middle-class English way.