Tom Wilkinson Quotes

#1. I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

Jordan Gavaris

#2. All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Tom Wilkinson

#3. Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.

Barbara Hurd

#4. When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

Tom Wilkinson

#5. If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

Tom Wilkinson

#6. A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

Len Smith

#7. I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Tom Wilkinson

#8. I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Tom Wilkinson

#9. One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

#10. I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

Joel Osteen

#11. Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

#12. There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

Tom Wilkinson

#13. I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it.

Jo Walton

#14. My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.

Dwight Howard

#15. My taste tends to skew a little bit towards the more feminine. Monique Lhuillier, Oscar de la Renta. Some of his wedding dresses in particular have been spectacular.

Danielle Panabaker

#16. I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

Tom Wilkinson

#17. You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Tom Wilkinson

#18. It (Congress) is a funny party. It is the largest political organization in the world but perhaps does not have a single rule or regulation. We create new rules every two minutes and then dump them. Nobody knows the rules in the party

Rahul Gandhi

#19. If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you ... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

Tom Wilkinson

#20. I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

Wendy Wasserstein

#21. The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

Robert L. Park

#22. Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Tom Wilkinson

#23. It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#24. Her heart was broken, but it had not stopped beating.

Sophie Jordan

#25. Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

Dave Eggers

#26. Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#27. Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

Tom Wilkinson

#28. You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

#29. There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay

#30. It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

#31. You can't possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk." Meg's smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the door, and all this lad needed was a stat dose of Man-the-Fuck-Up.

Cari Hunter