Latest Tom Hollander Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Tom Hollander

  Running, Scene, Comical

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Thinking, World, Politician

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Like You, New Car

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Tom Hollander

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Tom Hollander

  Sweet, Hyenas, Villain

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Fate, Tv Shows, London

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tom Hollander

  Thinking, Careers, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tom Hollander

  Years, Looks, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tom Hollander

  Thinking, Satisfied, Performances

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tom Hollander

  Thinking, Done, Proud

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Lapses, Spirit, Miserable

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tom Hollander

  Sadness, Unhappy, Brushes

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Opportunity, People, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Icons, Saws, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Drama, Feelings, Trying

  Source: collider.com