Tom Wilkinson
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"Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Wilkinson", is an English actor. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, for his roles in In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton (film)/Michael Clayton. In 2009, he won Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Film for playing Benjamin Franklin in John Adams (miniseries)/John Adams.

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When I very first started acting, at university, I thought I could do anything. Because you are so ignorant, you don't know what a good production should be. You don't know what the rules are. And then, when you start doing it professionally, you learn the rules and become more intimidated.

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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.

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

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It's a very simple and rather sort of a primitive feeling when you read a script.

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

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It is the first time I've ever been in a dress. And it's terrible, well, it's first of all, you kind of, you look at it, and you think, who do I look like? There is a moment of recognition. And it's not quite, and it's, who do I look like? And you think, I got it after, you know, looking at a photograph of me, and I thought, it's my mother. I look like my mother.

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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.

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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.

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I have talent. I know it. I've been doing this for 30 years. But at the same time, you not only have to be good; you have to be good in hits.

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