Tom Wilkinson Quotes & Sayings

“I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.”

“If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.”

“You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.”

“I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.”

“You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.”

“Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.”

“All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.”

“It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.”

“Most stuff you can do standing on your head.”

“Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.”