Tom Hollander Quotes
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.
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The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
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I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
