46 Quotes by Tom Burke

"I think there's a value in people talking, it's just that we're in this culture now where everyone wants to 'out' each other at every moment, for their unconscious bias or whatever, and people then don't feel free to just talk. Do you know what I mean?"

"I mean, I don't want to come down on call-out culture, because I guess it has its place, but there was an interesting article I read by a black feminist writer who was saying it brings shame into the equation. And shame can be very paralysing to people."

"Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background."

"I think there's a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else. So we mustn't make anybody too interesting. There's an ironing out of edges and eccentricities, idiosyncrasies in people and situations."

"Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity."

"But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in the industry. You'd think it happens all the time. It doesn't. There are so many hoops to jump through to get cast in something."

"When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son."

"I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next."

"There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies."

"Regional theatres don't patronise their audiences, and they're not afraid to do big, bold things."