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• Tom Wilkinson:

  Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

• Tom Wilkinson:

  You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script

• Tom Wilkinson:

  There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, do

• Tom Wilkinson:

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

• Tom Wilkinson:

  You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don'

• Tom Wilkinson:

  Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

• Tom Wilkinson:

  If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps

• Tom Wilkinson:

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

• Tom Wilkinson:

  I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's cos

• Tom Wilkinson:

  I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels l