35 Quotes by Tom Wilkinson

You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination.

The small car market continues to shrink, ... We've probably stayed with the small cars too long, and that market is not coming back the way we hoped. We need to grow our portfolio if we're going to grow as a company.

I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus.

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.

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

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.

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.

The English locution you are familiar with, the body language and all those sorts of things, are denied you, because Americans don't talk in that highly nuanced, middle-class English way.