Tom Wilkinson Quotes

"I'm temperamentally suited to the business of acting. I'm quite fatalistic. If it's not happening, it's not happening, and there's very little you can do."
-Tom Wilkinson

"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."
-Tom Wilkinson

"It's a very simple and rather sort of a primitive feeling when you read a script."
-Tom Wilkinson

"One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky."
-Tom Wilkinson

"It is the first time I've ever been in a dress. And it's terrible, well, it's first of all, you kind of, you look at it, and you think, who do I look like? There is a moment of recognition. And it's not quite, and it's, who do I look like? And you think, I got it after, you know, looking at a photograph of me, and I thought, it's my mother. I look like my mother."
-Tom Wilkinson

"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
-Tom Wilkinson

"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."
-Tom Wilkinson

"I have talent. I know it. I've been doing this for 30 years. But at the same time, you not only have to be good; you have to be good in hits."
-Tom Wilkinson