Quotes by Tom Bateman - Page 1

I sweat on stage a lot.
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Sweat
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I don't have social media.
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Media
Social
Social Media
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I try to be warm to everyone I meet.
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Warm
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Nothing really teaches you for the film world.
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Film World
Teaches
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It always comes down to script and characters.
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Script
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I've been exceptionally lucky and I know that.
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Exceptionally
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I don't look at myself as an attractive person.
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Attractive
Myself Look Person
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People are always telling me I look like Federer.
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Federer
Look Me People
Telling
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I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.
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Breakfast
People Care Think
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I can cross the line when I'm making fun of people.
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Cross
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Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.
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Competitiveness
Upbringing
Actually
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I don't like to feel like I'm being looked at all the time.
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Looked
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I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.
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Hawaii
Snatched
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For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.
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Intriguing
Norm
Me Stand Stand Up
Stand Up
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For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.
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Convince
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I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.
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Old Fashioned
Private Life
Life People Who
Those
Life People Private Life
Private
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Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.
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Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Real Life
Rooms
Trash
Life Me Real
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Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.
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Snobby
Stage
Proper
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Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.
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Hyde
Obviously
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My mum asked me what I prefer, and I said, 'I never miss film, but I miss theater.'
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Mum
Theater
Me Never Film
Asked
Prefer
Miss
Me Film Never
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There's a funny line between feeling objectified and feeling supported and it's a very odd one.
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Funny
Odd
Feeling
Line
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I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.
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Goosebumps
Remember When
Absolutely
Younger
Terrifying
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It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'
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Serious
Funny Me People
Upsets
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I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.
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Research
Unanswered
Shakespeare
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My mum is a primary school teacher and my dad is a music teacher and I've got loads of brothers and sisters.
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Teacher
Brothers And Sisters
Mum
Primary School
Brothers
Sisters
Loads
Primary
School Teacher
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I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.
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Vanity Fair
Documentary
Fair
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If you're playing someone who's not like you at all, it's good to find music that is their rhythm and their energy.
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Energy
Rhythm
Good Music Energy
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I have friends who say, 'I don't want to do period now because I have done a period piece and I need to wait for two years' - I don't have that.
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Period
Wait
Piece
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All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
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Drama
Sat
School
Voice
David
Catherine
Drama School
Exercises
Drama School Doing
Floor
Tate
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There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.
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Alive
Promise
Rejection
Taken
Actor
Blessings
Count
Every Day
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The book says, 'Vanity Fair - a story without a hero.' Becky is effectively the protagonist, the hero we follow. But she is flawed. Becky is a subject of her own time.
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Book
Flawed
Hero
Vanity Fair
Effectively
Fair
Follow
Protagonist
Says
Subject
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It's awful because if you have a blessed life like me, where I've been so lucky, you end up saying things like, 'Oh, my God. I was just playing hide-and-seek with Penelope Cruz.'
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Blessed
Cruz
Life God Me
Oh My God
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I've been brought up to be polite and I'm not very confrontational, but even I have walked away from situations and thought, 'If only I'd said or done that.' Well Mr Hyde says and does that.
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Hyde
Polite
Mr
Brought
Confrontational
Says
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I don't miss working on camera as much as theatre. But I do love film and television because it's so immediate; you walk on to a set and the tables are dusty, and everything's as it should be.
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Film And Television
Tables
Theatre
Miss
Camera
Dusty
Immediate
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Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.
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Auditions
Borrowing
Hyde
Influence
Little Bit
Shy
Lots
Close
Joker
Heath
Realise
Throughout
Whereas
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I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work in restaurants or as teachers and dental technicians. My twin brother Merlin is an artist.
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Work
Artist
Brother
Dental
France
Homeless
Red
Restaurants
Another
Teachers
Cross
Twin
Working
Got
Some
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With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don't keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul.
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Auction
Bag
Parts
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I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.
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Famous
Drama
Fortunate
Achieved
Acts
Drama School
Incredibly
Jonathan
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Jekyll is quite me: young man; polite. But being able to play Hyde was quite fun, to create a character that's nothing like me. I quite enjoyed creating a new character like that: he had a different voice; physicality; mannerisms. Everything had to be thought about. It was a real challenge.
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Creating
Enjoyed
Hyde
Mannerisms
Physicality
Polite
Young Man
Character Man Me
Challenge
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