A biography for Tom Paynehasn’t been written yet.
“When you have that fake beard and stuff stuck on your face, you can't move your face. It's just not fun.”
“With something like Waterloo Road' it was a lot slower and because I had a relatively small part - I mean, my character wasn't a main - I wasn't in filming so much.”
“I have a gym membership, but that's always been more about muscle building for roles.”
“If you want to survive the zombie apocalypse, you need to focus on increasing your stamina.”
“Never in my life did I think I would be walking down the street and people would shout 'Jesus!' at me in the street. It's quite amusing.”
“I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.”
“If they did recast the Wolverine part, I'd be well up for it.”
“There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.”
“The war we must must win is fought within.”
“Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.”
“When I was on 'The Walking Dead,' I was working with some great actors, but I wasn't working very much. It wasn't stretching me very much.”
“There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.”
“I'm a huge Highlander' fan.”
“There's no way I can grow a Jesus beard in a week.”
“I can't remember what episode it is but there's an episode of Prodigal Son' where I wake up in my underwear and, you can see, I can put the beef on!”
“I was in this motorcade, and I was like, I'm with Michael Mann and Nick Nolte and I'm in a TV show. Oh, my God!'”
“Honestly, a lot of the time, I'm like, 'Oh, my god, I've got so many lines to learn,' that I have to focus and get in into a bit of a zone, but there are always moments to have some fun.”
“Well, conventions are so cool, because I just feel like I'm giving out smiles all day, it's so fun, and you get people who are hysterically crying.”
“I have a new appreciation for how fit martial artists are. There is so much energy being exerted when you fight.”
“So, yeah, if I could play anyone, I think it would be Black Panther.”