Words matter. These are the best Tom Bateman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don’t keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul.
Maybe it’s a bit snobby, but it’s as if you’re a proper actor if you do stage.
The book says, ‘Vanity Fair – a story without a hero.’ Becky is effectively the protagonist, the hero we follow. But she is flawed. Becky is a subject of her own time.
I sweat on stage a lot.
I’ve got a wonderful family. They’re so non-showbiz.
I can cross the line when I’m making fun of people.
There’s a funny line between feeling objectified and feeling supported and it’s a very odd one.
It upsets me where you do a take and people go ‘that’s so funny,’ and you think ‘I was being serious.’
I’m not a sit-on-the-beach kind of guy.
I try to be warm to everyone I meet.
Nothing really teaches you for the film world.
I don’t do the gym.
I think you could very much make a ‘Vanity Fair’ in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.
I’ve been exceptionally lucky and I know that.
I’m one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.
I got in so much trouble when I was doing ‘Snatched’ in Hawaii.
For actors, the idea is that you convince people you’re someone you’re not.
I don’t like to feel like I’m being looked at all the time.
I don’t miss working on camera as much as theatre. But I do love film and television because it’s so immediate; you walk on to a set and the tables are dusty, and everything’s as it should be.
I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it’s an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.
I have friends who say, ‘I don’t want to do period now because I have done a period piece and I need to wait for two years’ – I don’t have that.
Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don’t do it in real life.
Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there’s something about Hyde.
I don’t look at myself as an attractive person.
Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.
