Tom Wilkinson quotes:

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

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

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

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

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.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.