Quotes by Tom Conti

About Tom Conti:

Thomas Antonio is a Scottish actor, theatre director and novelist of Italian Scots descent. He has won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1979 for his performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway?. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1983 film, Reuben, Reuben.
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If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

Tom Conti

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Tom Conti

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

Tom Conti

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Tom Conti

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Tom Conti

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Tom Conti

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

Tom Conti

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

Tom Conti

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Tom Conti

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

Tom Conti

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

Tom Conti

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Tom Conti

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Tom Conti

Author Bio

  • NameTom Conti
  • DescriptionBritish actor
  • BornNovember 22, 1941
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award