Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson
Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Wilkinson OBE is an English actor. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, for his roles in In the Bedroom and 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 December 1948
british-actor importance people perhaps vital
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.
british-actor good talent
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.
business quite suited
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.
looking moment photograph time
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.
body denied english familiar highly language sorts talk
The English locution you are familiar with, the body language and all those sorts of things, are denied you, because Americans don't talk in that highly nuanced, middle-class English way.
above chapter character courage difficult embraces father fortitude future life
I think that this character, Father Moore, is embarking on a very difficult chapter of his life and he embraces the future with courage and fortitude and above all, faith,
feeling primitive rather simple sort
It's a very simple and rather sort of a primitive feeling when you read a script.