Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes

I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.'

Tim Pigott-Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 13, 1946 - April 7, 2017

Topics

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Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.

Jennifer Konner

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Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

Meghan O'Rourke

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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Solomon Short

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The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

Shirley Temple

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You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

Tony Abbott

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It's cool seeing stuff, like, that come together really quickly and the reaction that it gets.

Joshua Ostrander

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Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

Jason Day

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I never went out looking for glory.

Don Rickles

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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Chief Joseph

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One of my top priorities in Congress is creating jobs and promoting a growing economy that raises the standard of living for all Americans.

Brad Schneider

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Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.

Ally Brooke

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