- There are no acting challenges in a good script, only in a bad script.
- All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
- I'm temperamentally suited to the business of acting. I'm quite fatalistic. If it's not happening, it's not happening, and there's very little you can do.
- Surprise is perhaps the storyteller's greatest weapon.
- [on deciding which roles to take]: "You just follow your nose. You ask those simple really instinctive questions like you know: Can I shine in this role?, Can I do this role better than anybody in the world?, Is there something in it that I recognize?... Its really not to do with the money, or the director, or the other members of the cast. The first simple thing is: Am I going to enjoy playing this character?... Its a purely instinctive decision."
- Because when you decide to do a script, you don't think, "Oh, I haven't a clue how to do that. "Ooh, let's do that." I don't... No. If I read something and think, "I can do that," that's the job I'll do. If I look at something and think, "How would I begin to do that?" I'm not an actor who responds well to a challenge.
- "You don't want to leave home as much. The last thing you want to do is get on a plane to Australia".
- Tom Wilkinson On Getting Older: 'It's Complicated"
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