I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God…

- Tom Courtenay

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say…

- Tom Courtenay

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actre…

- Tom Courtenay

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

- Tom Courtenay

My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notio…

- Tom Courtenay

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's to…

- Tom Courtenay

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally…

- Tom Courtenay

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

- Tom Courtenay

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.

- Tom Courtenay