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" 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

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Too

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you're in a good play and a good production, you find that you're in something that has a life beyond you. You think, 'Oh my goodness, this play's alive.' "

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

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Of course there is a danger of typecasting, and since 'Jewel in the Crown' appeared, I have had countless offers to play sadistic policemen and middle-class misfits. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

" 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

Holiday

Wife

" 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'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "