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" I never wanted to do film. I don't have the right face, and I don't like stardom. I like the fact that I have this wonderful thing that gives you status, but I'm most interested in doing decent work. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

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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. "

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

" Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything made apparent. "

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys. "

" 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. "

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

" American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. "

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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. "

" You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you? "

" If you can't educate your citizens and you can't keep them healthy, you can't begin to be a society. "

" 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. "

" By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.' "

" You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, 'I don't need to use much character in this - I have basically got to be me'. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I Rollerblade to work, but it's most lovely in the park, and it's really quite safe there. I do it quite carefully, and I wear all the gear. "

" I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary. "

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" 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. "