Tom Hollander Quotes

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

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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Success
  • Humble

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Writer
  • Expression
  • French

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Game
  • Relationship
  • Mom

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Friends
  • Spring
  • New

• … when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Bitter
  • Witty

• There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.

  

  Bianca Walkden
  • Good

• The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Up

• It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

  

  Martin Lel
  • Good
  • Champion

• 'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • City
  • Architecture

• The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Planning

• 'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer

• If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Heart
  • Road

• The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • World
  • Writing
  • America

• People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

  

  John Roos
  • People
  • Experience
  • Kids

• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Common
  • Behinds
  • Prejudice

• 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
  • Actors
  • Performances