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" I like jazz, and Martin Taylor and his band have it all, including a wonderful saxophonist and very fine accordionist, so you get a rather unusual range of sound. "

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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. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

School

Think

Friends

" People are fed up with broadcasters pushing the boundaries too far. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Boundaries

Too

" I earn a lot of money in England doing voice-overs, especially in documentaries. Turn on the Discovery Channel here, and you'll hear my voice a lot. It subsidizes my vice of acting in the theater. "

" 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. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Holiday

Wife

" America is very generous, but it's also a bit wacky, you know. "

" Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors. "

" When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face - I'm just gone. "

" There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

You

Say

" Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist who has a religious experience. I don't even know what it was called. I don't think it was ever released. "

" 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. "

" Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Seen

Feeling

" 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. "

" Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13. "

" In England, anybody who was alive remembers an interview between the press and Charles and Diana, right after they became engaged. One of the press asked Charles if he loved her. And he said, 'Oh, well, whatever love means.' Boy, it was a terrible answer. "

" Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career. "

" I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality. "

" My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage. "

" I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility. "

" When you're in a good play and a good production, you find that you're in something that has a life beyond you. You think, 'Oh my goodness, this play's alive.' "

" 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. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

London

Lovely

" As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets. "

" After a West End run, in which I was promoted to Laertes, I joined the RSC in 1972. I had fulfilled my dream. "

" You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director. "

" You can't keep a hero down, can you? "

" 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. "

" I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Youth

Understand

" When I was 16, we moved to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon. That was the year of Paul Scofield's 'Lear.' I think he is still widely perceived as the only actor who has got his flag at the top of the mountain. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit. "