A biography for Nigel Hawthornehasn’t been written yet.
“Trevor and I had been going to awards ceremonies for years. People knew. Look, if you don't get married by age 65, people know something's up.”
“Clint Eastwood was a most delightful man to work with.”
“I'm getting better, but I used to pull away from emotion, and from people.”
“When you set yourself up to be apart from rest of mankind, you're in danger of crashing further than they ever could. That's the trouble with royalty, after all.”
“Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.”
“I feel that too much fuss is made about being gay.”
“I can't grumble. I've been very content with the way things have gone. I may have minor quibbles as we all have, but I'm still working at 70.”
“The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly.”
“My parents never really understood my choice of career.”
“I don't have the vocal dexterity, nor do I have the desire to put myself in among the giants.”
“I started to admit vulnerabilities and things that I was trying to hide before. Shyness, anxiety, guilt and all those things that I have in me are now quite freely shown.”
“I was always a supporting actor. It is nice to know one has the equipment to be a leading actor.”
“I really don't like talking about me - me as me, that is. Me in relation to what I do is another matter. But me as me is boring.”
“I'm very lucky in that my feet are firmly on the ground.”
“I'm not a big classical actor.”
“What I've learned is that the camera can get right into your soul, and you have to be ready for it.”
“My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father. You didn't lie or cheat with him. I would never have defied my father.”
“If I hadn't done 'Shadowlands,' which was a sort of emotional release for me as a person as well as an actor, it might have been less easy to have done 'George III.'”
“Ian McKellen always said I should come out. But why? I make my living playing heterosexuals.”
“I think you start in middle life to recognize your vulnerabilities, if you're lucky. You admit them and people find that interesting.”