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" 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. "

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Tim Pigott-Smith

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Energy

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Tim Pigott-Smith

Boundaries

Too

" 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

Over

Worst

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Seriously

Over

" Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

You

Wonderful

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "