Tom Riley
Tom Riley
Tom Riley is an English actor and producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth5 April 1981
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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.
I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.
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I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
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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.
Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.
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There's a certain aura when a superstar like Brad Pitt walks into a room - I've seen it myself - but it comes from everyone else going, 'Aaaahhh!!' That's what you have to deal with, people looking at you and whispering. That would be the strangest thing, feeling the change as you walk in a room and trying to ignore it. But I think I could cope!
experience gained helped inform
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any country that embarks on policies that encourage drug use will get more drug use and more drug addiction.
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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.