Words matter. These are the best Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For sheer excitement, a weekend in New York is unbeatable. Arrive on Friday morning, leave on Monday night, and don’t worry about jet lag – just buzz for four days.
In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name.
America is very generous, but it’s also a bit wacky, you know.
You wouldn’t read ‘Anna Karenina’ and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?
I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.
I especially like the Padstow area and the south coast near Portloe. It’s lovely, though I do wish it was a bit closer to London.
I love Stevie Wonder for his sense of rapture in the music. He can swing through a zappy tune, lift your heart, or drift into a sad ballad with consummate ease.
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don’t respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.
The ‘reality’ shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before.
One of the functions of drama is to teach.
People wrote about me and started calling me a star, and I just hated it. There are aspects of it that are great – I mean, you can ring up any restaurant and get in, can’t you.
Of course there is a danger of typecasting, and since ‘Jewel in the Crown’ appeared, I have had countless offers to play sadistic policemen and middle-class misfits.
What makes Biarritz special, as far as I’m concerned, are the fantastic coastline, the beaches – such as the Cotes des Basques – and the sea.
It’s not legally possible to put an image of a member of the royal family on the Tube!
When I grew up, in the time of ‘Look Back in Anger,’ the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt that social comment could lead to social change.
What a wonderful life I’ve had – absolutely amazing.
I like jazz, and Martin Taylor and his band have it all, including a wonderful saxophonist and very fine accordionist, so you get a rather unusual range of sound.
You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.
Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.
If you can’t educate your citizens and you can’t keep them healthy, you can’t begin to be a society.
When I was 16, we moved to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon. That was the year of Paul Scofield’s ‘Lear.’ I think he is still widely perceived as the only actor who has got his flag at the top of the mountain.
Hollywood’s best producers and directors are in film, not TV.
I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a soft spot for him, and I admire our constitutional monarchy, but Charles often comes across as eccentric, and he has a mixed press.
Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist who has a religious experience. I don’t even know what it was called. I don’t think it was ever released.
I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it’s the most amazing view of New York. And it’s free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you know, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s staggering.
I would say that the money that was invested in me by Warwickshire Education Authority, which they did for five years, has been repaid a hundred times over. I have paid a lot more back to them in tax than they paid in support to me, but they helped me on my way – they launched me; they got me going.
You had to be there at the time to understand the wild creative energy of the Fab Four, and this contains forays into Indian music as well as classics such as ‘When I’m Sixty-Four.’
I’m not a big fan of the Mediterranean, but being in the Bay of Biscay, the sea is forever changing, and on a clear day, you see as far as Spain. It’s incomparable.
After ‘Jewel In the Crown,’ I hardly worked at all for about six months – which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.
I’m quite sharp but not particularly academic.
