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, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.