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Tom Hollander, born on August 25, 1967, is a distinguished British actor known for his exceptional performances in theater, television, and film. He is particularly celebrated for his roles in 'The Crown' and 'Skins'.

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“For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.”

People Satisfaction Aspiration Complacency Distasteful

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“Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.”

People Ifs Littles Character Seems Bits Easier Little Bit Pathetic Affinity

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“People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.”

People Enough Film Stars Tvs Scales Mediums Behave Awe Film Stars

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“I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.”

Knows Saws Huge Dylan Icons Welsh

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“I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.”

Trying Feelings Comedy Terrible Easier Drama Notion Horrible

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“I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.”

Self Enough Play Able Found Behavior Misery Release Enjoyed Destructive Dylan Self Destructive

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“I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.”

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“If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.”

Ifs Spirit Paid Miserable Fortunate Occasional Lapses

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“I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.”

Sadness Unhappy Brushes Dylan

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“I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.”

Thinking Performances Satisfied

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“You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.”

Thinking Done Proud

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“You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.”

Ifs Years Looks Stuff Bits Blind Objectives

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“If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.”

People Ifs Giving Actors Opportunity Performances Plenty

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“I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.”

Thinking Careers Lucky Versatile

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“I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.”

Shows Fate Subjects Tvs Difficulty London Priests Misfortunes Tv Shows

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“I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.”

Sweet Villain Hyenas

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“Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.”

Thinking Knows Feels Artist Uncomfortable Guts Now And Then

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“My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.”

Given Parent Security My Sister Rushing Showbiz Rushing Around

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“Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.”

Heart Stories Community Our Society Extremity Vicars

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“I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.”

Kind Persons Kenneth

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“I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.”

Acting Cases Rubbish Flippant

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“The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.”

Danger Define You

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“I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.”

People Real Done Enough Facts Seems Wanted Laughing Comedy Havens Silly Considering

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“In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.”

Belief Church Periods Contact Good Day Bad Day Belief In God Have A Good Day Good Days And Bad Days

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“Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.”

Way Able Actors Process Creative Significant Creative Process Fulfilling

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“Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.”

Men Firsts Kids Able Picks Eggs Timer

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“When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.”

Moments Spiritual Dies Church Doors Married Crisis Toms

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“You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.”

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“Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.”

Thinking World Reason Natural Politician Train Right Thing

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“The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.”

Like You New Car

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“Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head. With this process, you get to let it out of the box a little bit.”

Running Scene Comical

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“I'm on the verge of taking a stand.”

Decision Decision Making Verge

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“I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.”

People Want Made Huge Fame Lifestyle Nervous Realising Disadvantages

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About the Author

Born: August 25, 1967
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 33

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