Quotes by Tim Pigott-Smith - Page 2

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'.
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Character Me Way
Begins
Bitten
Inform
Normally
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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.
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Elusive
Nuclear
Religious Experience
Scientist
Released
Sheen
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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.'
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Flattering
Lovely
Uncomfortable
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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.
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Admire
Easy
Monarchy
Across
Charles
Constitutional
Often
Spot
Met
Mixed
Press
Soft Spot
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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.
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Arithmetic
Going Home
Primary School
Baptist
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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 /
Diana
Engaged
Charles
Interview
Remembers
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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
Breathe
Ferry
Most Amazing
Staggering
Yearning
Great Amazing Always
Ellis
Island
Masses
View
York
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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 /
Attention
Only Child
Pressure
Spoilt
Too Much
Disciplinarian
Much Attention
Quite A Lot
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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.
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Audience
Hated
Identification
Old Friends
Partners
University
Touch
Me School Back
Jewel
Medium
Screened
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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.
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Casting
Casting Directors
Imaginative
Nasty
Absolute
Best Work Power
Afterwards
Arm
Offered
Villains
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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 /
Authority
Hundred
Hundred Times
Invested
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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.
Tim Pigott-Smith /
Landing
Memorable
Shock
Uncomfortable
Adored
Airport
Arrival
Filming
Crown
Eighties
Hotels
Jewel
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