Tom Wilkinson movie quotes

“Michael, I have great affection for you and you live a very rich and interesting life, but you're a bag man not an attorney. If your intention was to have me committed you should have kept me in Wisconsin where the arrest report, the videotape, eyewitness reports of my inappropriate behavior would have had jurisdictional relevance.”
Tom Wilkinson - Arthur Edens

“- Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
- Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do?
- Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
- Hugh Fennyman: How?
- Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.”
Geoffrey Rush - Philip Henslowe
Tom Wilkinson - Hugh Fennyman

“- Robert Robbie Ross: I must tell you, Father, the dying man has been quite a well-known literary figure.
- Father Cuthbert Dunne: Oh, well, that's all one and the same to God, Mr Ross. He has very little time to read, what with all us sinners clogging up the road to hell.”

Edwin Thomas - Robert Robbie Ross
Tom Wilkinson - Father Cuthbert Dunne

“- General Friedrich Fromm: What is it you want?
- General Friedrich Olbricht: I wanted to introduce our new man, Colonel Stauffenberg.
- General Friedrich Fromm: Ah! From Africa. Well, I'd offer you my hand, but I might not get it back.”
Tom Wilkinson - General Friedrich Fromm
Bill Nighy - General Friedrich Olbricht

“- Martin Luther King Jr.: We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

- Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis: Their names and ranks?
- Benjamin Martin: They refuse to give me their names, but the ranks are nine lieutenants, five captains, three majors, and one very fat colonel who called me a... "cheeky fellow".
Tom Wilkinson - Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“Fish and guests stink after three days.”
Tom Wilkinson - Benjamin Franklin

“People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes; that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air. In point of fact, the opposite is true. Once the public knows you're a writer, they bring the characters and events to you. And as long as you maintain your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Wilkinson - Author

“There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.”
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“- Timothy McWinters: If we close this deal, I want to make love to a woman, wheelbarrow position.
- Mike Pancake: How is it a wheelbarrow?
- Timothy McWinters: One person's legs is being held up...
- Mike Pancake: Does that feel good?
- Pretty German Girl: No.”
Tom Wilkinson - Timothy McWinters
Dave Franco - Mike Pancake
Jil Funke - Pretty German Girl

“It is no small thing to build a new world, gentlemen. We have our republic. We must endeavour to keep it, if we can.”
Tom Wilkinson - Benjamin Franklin

“- Gerald: Fat, David, is a feminist issue.
- Dave: Well, what's that supposed to mean?
- Gerald: I don't bloody know, do I? But it is.”
Tom Wilkinson - Gerald
Mark Addy - Dave

“- Gov. George Wallace: Mr. President, malcontents are disrupting Alabama and it's your responsibility to stop them.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: They're protesting about the right to vote and the way they're treated in your state, so that's your problem and it's your responsibility and it's on your watch.”
Tim Roth - Gov. George Wallace
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?”
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“I'll be damned to let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.”

Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.”
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“You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do.”
Tom Wilkinson

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

“One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.”
Tom Wilkinson

“All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.”
Tom Wilkinson

“- Henry: She deserves better than him.
- Rudy Holt: Now you're talking.
- Henry: Better than me, too.
- Rudy Holt: Yeah, but she doesn't know that yet.”

Billy Crudup - Henry
Tom Wilkinson - Rudy Holt

“You cannot protect the nation by attacking the right of every man to speak freely without fear.”
Tom Wilkinson - Benjamin Franklin

“- Henry: You'll be fine. We'll both be fine Rudy.
- Rudy Holt: That's life Henry.
- Henry: Yep.”
Billy Crudup - Henry
Tom Wilkinson - Rudy Holt

“Once you've looked into the darkness, I think you carry it with you for the rest of your life.”
Tom Wilkinson - Father Moore

“Do you wanna know why our son is dead? He went there not because of me. He went there because of you. Because you are so controlling, so overbearing, so angry. Ever since he was little, you were telling him how he was wrong. I remember, one time you yanked him out of a little league game and sent him home, for throwing his glove in the dirt. He...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tom Wilkinson - Matt Fowler