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Tom Hollander Biography

Thomas Anthony Hollander (born 25 August 1967) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre, winning the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. He is known for his roles in comedic films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and In the Loop and drama films such as Enigma, Pride & Prejudice, Gosford Park, and Hanna. He played the lead role in the sitcom Rev., which won the British Academy Television Award for best sitcom in 2011. He also played the lead in the ITV's Doctor Thorne and won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Major Lance "Corky" Corkoran in the BBC series The Night Manager.

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The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

Danger, Define You, Everything, Part, Playing

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

Artist, Gut, Maybe, Now And Then, Think, Thinking

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

Community, Heart, Life, See, Stories, Touch

That's what I love about working for Marvel is how welcoming and kind everyone is. Zendaya has such a large following on Instagram, and the majority of those people are all for her and love her, and I feel like our generation of people are moving on from that. This whole, you can't cast someone who's not of the right race for a character and such, and I really feel like we're breaking through and changing that. And Z is perfect. She's so strong willed, it's not going to shake her at all.

Cast, Character, Large, Moving, Strong, Whole

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

Corner, Decide, Like, Like You, New Car, Raise

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

Performance, Performances, Satisfied, Think, Thinking

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

Bad, Bad Day, Church, Good Day, Life, Solid

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

Eggs, Kids, Love, Luckily, Men, Obviously

For me playing Spider-Man is just making sure I feel like a kid on set, and really be the kid that everyone wants to be, and just have fun with it, and see a superhero really enjoy having his powers.

Fun, Kid, Kids, Making, Superhero

Just meeting kids on the street, the best is when they actually believe I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how the webs work, and I have to say, oh I don't have the suit on and blah blah blah. That for me is one of the best things about being Spider-Man is convincing little kids that I can actually do all that stuff.

Believe, Convincing, Kids, Little Kid, Meeting, Street

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

Careers, Like, Lucky, Think, Thinking, Versatile

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

Rushing, Parent, My Sister, Sister, Given

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

Actually, Fortunate, Lapses, Miserable, Spirit

Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head. With this process, you get to let it out of the box a little bit.

Comical, Filming, Grotesque, Running, Scene, Sort

I mean, it's difficult not to take influence from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield because they both had such great versions of the character. I think from Tobey I'm taking his sort of less cool side of things, whereas Andrew was very cool and very sort of contained. But then with Andrew, I thought his Spider-Man was fantastic.

Character, Mean, Taking, Things, Think, Thinking

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

Drama, Feelings, Horrible, Notion, Subscribe, Trying

When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

Church, Die, Doors, Spiritual

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

Affinity, Character, Characters, Littles, Pathetic, People

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Acting, Case, Flippant, Rubbish

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

Kind, Kenneth, Persons, Starring, Branagh

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