A biography for Tom Batemanhasn’t been written yet.
“If you're playing someone who's not like you at all, it's good to find music that is their rhythm and their energy.”
“I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.”
“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.”
“Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.”
“It's nice to play to a full house.”
“Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.”
“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.'”
“India is just amazing.”
“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.”
“I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.”
“I've got a wonderful family. They're so non-showbiz.”
“For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.”
“I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.”
“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.”
“I don't have social media.”
“I don't look at myself as an attractive person.”
“It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'”
“For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.”
“I've been exceptionally lucky and I know that.”
“My mum asked me what I prefer, and I said, 'I never miss film, but I miss theater.'”