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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tim Pigott-Smith

Crown

Danger

Jewel

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Tim Pigott-Smith

Boundaries

Too

" The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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

" 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

" 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. "

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