Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" My wife is a fantastic traveller. She's good fun and very optimistic. Even if things get bad, she's good at seeing the light side. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Wife
Good
Fun
Related Quotes:
" 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
Like
London
Lovely
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Play
Learn
Good
" 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'. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
You
Need
Way
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Did
Your
You
" 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
Me
You
Say
" When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Up
Seriously
Over
" You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you? "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Same
You
Work
" I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
TV
Youth
Understand
" 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
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Alive
Loved
Love
" American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Character
American
Development
" I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Real
People
Responsibility
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Safe
Work
Sometimes
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Like
You
Wonderful
" 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
Up
Holiday
Wife
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Surprise
Admit
Crown
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Emotions
Way
Reality
" One of the functions of drama is to teach. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Drama
Functions
Teach
" I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Think
Personality
Job
" Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
New York
Play
Career
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
More
Over
Worst
" 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
Like
" I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you know, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It's staggering. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
New York
Moment
Great
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Change
You
Time
" It's not legally possible to put an image of a member of the royal family on the Tube! "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Member
Possible
Royal
" I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Sharp
Particularly
Academic
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Book
You
Maturity
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Think
Child
Love
" 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. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Turn
Voice
You
" My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Except
Memory
Off