Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Three

Crown

Culture

" You had to be there at the time to understand the wild creative energy of the Fab Four, and this contains forays into Indian music as well as classics such as 'When I'm Sixty-Four.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before. "

" Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the functions of drama is to teach. "

" 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

" 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. "

" What a wonderful life I've had - absolutely amazing. "

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

" In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name. "

" I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic. "

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

Tim Pigott-Smith

Boundaries

Too

" I would say that the money that was invested in me by Warwickshire Education Authority, which they did for five years, has been repaid a hundred times over. I have paid a lot more back to them in tax than they paid in support to me, but they helped me on my way - they launched me; they got me going. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Education

Money

" 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. "

" People wrote about me and started calling me a star, and I just hated it. There are aspects of it that are great - I mean, you can ring up any restaurant and get in, can't you. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

People

Great