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" 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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" It's not legally possible to put an image of a member of the royal family on the Tube! "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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