Quotes by Tom Riley - Page 1

Relentless Forward Motion!
Tom Riley / Actor
Running
Inspirational Running
Relentless
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My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.
Tom Riley / Actor
Fishing
Holes
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I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.
Tom Riley / Actor
Auditions
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Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.
Tom Riley / Actor
Down And
Ideas
Sitting Down
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The thing about Doctor Who is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location.
Tom Riley / Actor
Doctors
Fans
World
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The thing about 'Doctor Who' is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location.
Tom Riley / Actor
Doctor Who
Fans
Location
Doctor
Chased
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I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
Tom Riley / Actor
Anything And Everything
Bars
Record Stores
Restaurants
Stores
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When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.
Tom Riley / Actor
Actors
Assured
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I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.
Tom Riley / Actor
People
Thinking
Watches
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I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.
Tom Riley / Actor
Fashion
Realizing
World
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I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
Tom Riley / Actor
Standing
Copied
Jump
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Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.
Tom Riley / Actor
Imaginative
Stage
Visceral
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I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
Tom Riley / Actor
Audience
Mum
Puppets
Theatre
Clearly
Telling
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I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.
Tom Riley / Actor
Gym
Motivation
Weather
Basement
Run
Treadmill
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I'd like to say that I'm a binge-watcher, but I don't really have time. I think the most I've done in a sit-down is three episodes, maybe. It depends.
Tom Riley / Actor
Done
Thinking
Three
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I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.
Tom Riley / Actor
Experience Me Feel
Gained
Inform
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University was a chance to people-watch and to mix with people from all various walks of life, which as an actor is a great experience because you get to observe people.
Tom Riley / Actor
Walks
Life Experience Great
Great Experience
Mix
Observe
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It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.
Tom Riley / Actor
Feelings
Want
Years
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New York is fantastic, and I've done several films in Los Angeles which I really enjoyed, but I don't think that America is the be-all and end-all. I'll follow the good work wherever it may be.
Tom Riley / Actor
Enjoyed
Fantastic
Good Work
Los Angeles
Work Good Done
Angeles
Work Good New
Work Good May
End-All
Follow
Los
Several
Wherever
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Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.
Tom Riley / Actor
Nuclear
People
Weapons
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I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'Inside No 9.' The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then tasked themselves with including completely new characters every week, within a single half-hour.
Tom Riley / Actor
Location
Constrained
Episode
Steve
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What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.
Tom Riley / Actor
People Drama School
Drama School
Gigantic
Mix
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In America, celebrities who go to see your show will come backstage and introduce themselves. Meeting Annette Bening and Ethan Hawke that way was amazing, but when Tom Hanks came, it was really special - I've loved him since I first saw him in 'Big!'
Tom Riley / Actor
Amazing
America
Special
Your Will See
Since
Backstage
Show
Came
Loved
Celebrities
Saw
Introduce
Meeting
Themselves
Tom
Tom Hanks
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Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.
Tom Riley / Actor
Audience
First Love
Intimacy
Performing
Scene
Theatre
Wanted
Actor
Why
Career
Drop
Each
Far
First Place
Highlight
Last
Place
Squeeze
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I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
Tom Riley / Actor
Conventional
Handsome
Stranger
Good Man Me
Good Man Look
Angles
Enables
Leading
Leading Man
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The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's a lot easier to watch a load of those because it's far more palatable to go, "You know, I'm just going to do one more of these."
Tom Riley / Actor
Half
Innovation
Netflix
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The minute you're offered another option, you're like, "You mean, I can watch this every week, if I want to, or twice this week, if I need to, and not next week, if I don't have time?" I didn't even realize it was something we wanted or needed, which is where all great innovations come from.
Tom Riley / Actor
Innovation
Mean
Next Week
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I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.
Tom Riley / Actor
Birmingham
Bunch
Company
Drama
England
English Literature
Literature
Radio
Stuff
Theater
University
Started
Article
Degree
Directed
North
Plays
Wrote
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I went to London Fashion Week for the first time, after I got the job [on The Collection ], and it completely changed the way I perceived it. I thought, "This is a far bigger operation than I ever expected, and it has far more worth than I ever gave it before." It definitely changed my view of the fashion world.
Tom Riley / Actor
Jobs
Fashion
Views
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It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.
Tom Riley / Actor
Art
Jobs
Years
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The other great thing about it, that seems to be the case in streaming, is that a lot more scripts are written before you start. Because they are planning on allowing it all up at one time, you have four or five scripts to read and an outline of where it's going to go. The writers aren't chasing their tails as much. You're able to see the beginning, middle and end of a storyline, and that is rare. Streaming allows that, in a way that network TV doesn't.
Tom Riley / Actor
Able
Four
Way
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