Tom Bateman Quotes

Tom Bateman

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 15, 1989

I've been brought up to be polite and I'm not very confrontational, but even I have walked away from situations and thought, 'If only I'd said or done that.' Well Mr Hyde says and does that.

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For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

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I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.

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I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.

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I don't like to feel like I'm being looked at all the time.

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I'm not a sit-on-the-beach kind of guy.

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I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.

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My mum asked me what I prefer, and I said, 'I never miss film, but I miss theater.'

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Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

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It always comes down to script and characters.

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For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

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I have friends who say, 'I don't want to do period now because I have done a period piece and I need to wait for two years' - I don't have that.

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It's awful because if you have a blessed life like me, where I've been so lucky, you end up saying things like, 'Oh, my God. I was just playing hide-and-seek with Penelope Cruz.'

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All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

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I sweat on stage a lot.

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Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.

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The book says, 'Vanity Fair - a story without a hero.' Becky is effectively the protagonist, the hero we follow. But she is flawed. Becky is a subject of her own time.

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I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.

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I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.

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Jekyll is quite me: young man; polite. But being able to play Hyde was quite fun, to create a character that's nothing like me. I quite enjoyed creating a new character like that: he had a different voice; physicality; mannerisms. Everything had to be thought about. It was a real challenge.

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