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" I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
TV
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" When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously. "
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" I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.' "
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" I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a soft spot for him, and I admire our constitutional monarchy, but Charles often comes across as eccentric, and he has a mixed press. "
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" I'm not a big fan of the Mediterranean, but being in the Bay of Biscay, the sea is forever changing, and on a clear day, you see as far as Spain. It's incomparable. "
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" Fame changed my life completely because, for a while, I was in a position to choose what I did. I miss that aspect. But I always felt uncomfortable with it. "
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" When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt that social comment could lead to social change. "
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" If you can't educate your citizens and you can't keep them healthy, you can't begin to be a society. "
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" People are fed up with broadcasters pushing the boundaries too far. "
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" My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing. "
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" You can't keep a hero down, can you? "
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" The worst nickname I ever had was Tim Pig-ears-Smith. I had big ears. When I was younger, it was more pronounced. So I felt huge sympathy towards Prince Charles over that. "
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" I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and moved on to other things Simon remained the genius lyricist and composer. "
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Sound
Art
" You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you? "
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" My first arrival in India was memorable - landing at Delhi airport at 2 A.M. to start filming 'The Jewel in the Crown' in the Eighties. The man who was supposed to pick me up wasn't there, so I spent a very uncomfortable three hours phoning around hotels to find out where I was supposed to be. It was a major culture shock, but I adored India. "
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" What makes Biarritz special, as far as I'm concerned, are the fantastic coastline, the beaches - such as the Cotes des Basques - and the sea. "
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" When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace. "
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Winning
" My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage. "
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Memory
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" Drama at Bristol was an academic course: you were judged on your A-levels, and there were no auditions. I did a BA General degree. "
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" The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me. "
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" I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility. "
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" What a wonderful life I've had - absolutely amazing. "
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" I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there. "
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" When 'Jewel' was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium. "
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" I especially like the Padstow area and the south coast near Portloe. It's lovely, though I do wish it was a bit closer to London. "
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" By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.' "
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" As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets. "
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" I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality. "
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" I love Stevie Wonder for his sense of rapture in the music. He can swing through a zappy tune, lift your heart, or drift into a sad ballad with consummate ease. "
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