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Top 25 Tom Hollander Quotes (2025 Update)

Tom Hollander Quote: “I meet people who are famous, and it’s made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I’m nervous about that. I don’t want to become a celebrity.”

1. “I meet people who are famous, and it’s made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I’m nervous about that. I don’t want to become a celebrity.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It’s extremely rare.”

2. “Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It’s extremely rare.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I’ve had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it’s not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn’t work. It doesn’t suit day-to-day life.”

3. “I’ve had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it’s not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn’t work. It doesn’t suit day-to-day life.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.”

4. “I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I’m on the verge of taking a stand.”

5. “I’m on the verge of taking a stand.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I’m not Welsh and I didn’t know that much about Dylan Thomas, and I saw that he’s a huge icon of Welsh-ness.”

7. “I’m not Welsh and I didn’t know that much about Dylan Thomas, and I saw that he’s a huge icon of Welsh-ness.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.”

8. “I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it’s to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don’t hear the word ‘no’ enough.”

9. “People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it’s to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don’t hear the word ‘no’ enough.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I’m not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I’ve certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.”

10. “I’m not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I’ve certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I’m very, very lucky in that.”

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

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.”

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

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I’m rubbish.”

15. “I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I’m rubbish.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “You’re always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.”

16. “You’re always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.”

19. “If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I’m unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I’m not, but I’ve had my brushes with sadness.”

20. “I’m unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I’m not, but I’ve had my brushes with sadness.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “You always think, “Oh, I’m sure I could have done that better.” But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.”

22. “You always think, “Oh, I’m sure I could have done that better.” But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency – the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.”

26. “For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency – the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I don’t think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.”

27. “I don’t think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander Quote: “I’ve always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven’t done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.”

29. “I’ve always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven’t done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.”

— Tom Hollander

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