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

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

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

- 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.

- 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.…

- Tom Hollander

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

- 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…

- Tom Hollander

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

- Tom Hollander