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.
You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does. - Tom Hollander
You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.
- Tom Hollander
I'm on the verge of taking a stand. - Tom Hollander
I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people. - Tom Hollander
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
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
I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful. - Tom Hollander
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
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.… - Tom Hollander
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.…
The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else. - Tom Hollander
The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without… - Tom Hollander
Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without…
I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness. - Tom Hollander
I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.
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