I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.
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.
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.
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…
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