30 Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tim Pigott-Smith

English Actor

Born: May 13, 1946

Died: Apr 7, 2017

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In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name. Tim Pigott-Smith

First Television Cast Name Because Cavalry Officer

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. Tim Pigott-Smith

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I earn a lot of money in England doing voice-overs, especially in documentaries. Turn on the Discovery Channel here, and you'll hear my voice a lot. It subsidizes my vice of acting in the theater. Tim Pigott-Smith

You Money Earn Channel Voice Documentaries Doing Hear Discovery Lot Vice Theater Turn Turn-On Acting England Here

Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV. Tim Pigott-Smith

Best TV Directors Hollywood Producers Film

Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything made apparent. Tim Pigott-Smith

Made Accident Everything Out Having Perhaps American Nationality Want Subtlety While Them Apparent English Treasure Appreciate

Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become part of the national culture and mythology... at least for a time. Tim Pigott-Smith

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People are fed up with broadcasters pushing the boundaries too far. Tim Pigott-Smith

People Too Broadcasters Fed Fed Up Pushing Boundaries Up Far

When 'Jewel' was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium. Tim Pigott-Smith

Me School Old Old Friends Think Other Medium Back Kind Hated Touch Having More Could House Identification Partners Audience Does Got Friends Than Any Screened Happen Them Much Jewel University

My first arrival in India was memorable - landing at Delhi airport at 2 A.M. to start filming 'The Jewel in the Crown' in the Eighties. The man who was supposed to pick me up wasn't there, so I spent a very uncomfortable three hours phoning around hotels to find out where I was supposed to be. It was a major culture shock, but I adored India. Tim Pigott-Smith

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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

You Healthy Society Citizens Educate Begin Them Your Keep

America is very generous, but it's also a bit wacky, you know. Tim Pigott-Smith

You Bit Generous Know Also Wacky Very America

The worst nickname I ever had was Tim Pig-ears-Smith. I had big ears. When I was younger, it was more pronounced. So I felt huge sympathy towards Prince Charles over that. Tim Pigott-Smith

Big Sympathy Ears Worst Charles More Had Towards Over Prince Prince Charles Felt Tim Huge Younger Ever Nickname

It's not legally possible to put an image of a member of the royal family on the Tube! Tim Pigott-Smith

Family Member Possible Put Legally Tube Image Royal Royal Family

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary. Tim Pigott-Smith

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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. Tim Pigott-Smith

You Book Maturity Respond Response Poem Literature Might Your

Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors. Tim Pigott-Smith

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I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality. Tim Pigott-Smith

Personality Job Think Himself Another Used Actor

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. Tim Pigott-Smith

Reality People Emotions Internet Before Our Broadcasting Way Television Restraint Never Encouraged Behave Happened Public Reality Shows Less Shows Things

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