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Tim Pigott-Smith
1946 – 2017 • English • Actor
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Showing 60 quotesWhen I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.— Tim Pigott-Smith
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.— Tim Pigott-Smith
If you can't educate your citizens and you can't keep them healthy, you can't begin to be a society.— Tim Pigott-Smith
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.— Tim Pigott-Smith
When you're in a good play and a good production, you find that you're in something that has a life beyond you. You think, 'Oh my goodness, this play's alive.'— Tim Pigott-Smith
My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.— Tim Pigott-Smith
I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.'— Tim Pigott-Smith
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.'— Tim Pigott-Smith
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.— Tim Pigott-Smith
I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and moved on to other things Simon remained the genius lyricist and composer.— Tim Pigott-Smith
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.— Tim Pigott-Smith
I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.— Tim Pigott-Smith
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.— Tim Pigott-Smith
Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.— Tim Pigott-Smith
Drama at Bristol was an academic course: you were judged on your A-levels, and there were no auditions. I did a BA General degree.— Tim Pigott-Smith