English - Actor | May 13, 1946 - April 7, 2017
You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?
Tim Pigott-Smith
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As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets.
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The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me.
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I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a soft spot for him, and I admire our constitutional monarchy, but Charles often comes across as eccentric, and he has a mixed press.
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By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'
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After a West End run, in which I was promoted to Laertes, I joined the RSC in 1972. I had fulfilled my dream.
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People wrote about me and started calling me a star, and I just hated it. There are aspects of it that are great - I mean, you can ring up any restaurant and get in, can't you.
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When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face - I'm just gone.
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I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.
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Of course there is a danger of typecasting, and since 'Jewel in the Crown' appeared, I have had countless offers to play sadistic policemen and middle-class misfits.
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I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary.
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I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.
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