Quotes by Timothy Spall - Page 1

It's an odd world.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Odd
World
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It's my job to manipulate feelings.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Manipulate
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I was always insecure about the way I looked.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Insecure
Way
Looked
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I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Awards
Uncomfortable
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I know I work quite hard at making people like me.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Knows
Like Me
People
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Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Imagination
Beast
Cages
Cage
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Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Dying
Fool
Mean
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I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Army
Join
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I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it!
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Love Cinema People
Two People
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If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Afflicted
Perfecting
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I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Offensive
Played
Othello
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I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Back Door
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You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Film
Ifs
Want
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If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Awards
Oneself
Facile
Measure
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Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Unusual
Time Something About
Parallel
Talked
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I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Worth Living
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I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Knows
Way
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There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Morning
Mind
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There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Little Bit
Littles
Unemployment
Wells
Stuffing
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I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Class
People
Unintelligent
Want
People Know Want
Cliches
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You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Done
Live Your Life
Profound
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I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Button
Imaginations
Pressing
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Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Class
Eccentric
Mad
Upper Class
Owned
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Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Rationally
Scientifically
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Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Engagement
Intellect
Massive
Occasional
Profound
Life Is A
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The older I get, the more I feel that's all we are: a big bunch of feelings and instincts all wrapped up in some brief encounter with intellect.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Intellect
Brief
Instincts
Encounter
Wrapped
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You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Life Your Start
Encountered
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If I can't get hold of someone I love, I'll assume they're being tied to a radiator by al-Qaeda rather than their battery's run out. I'm quite a worrier.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Al Qaeda
Tied
Assume
Battery
Hold
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It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Aspire
Bother
Careers
People
Me People Who
Iota
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Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Littles
Profound
Triumph
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My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up and my son is now a very successful actor, Rafe Spall.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Travels
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As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn't always go to plan.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Thoughtful
Life Always Your
Sorrows
Triumphs
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There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello - Othello! Whether you like it or not.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Posh
Sake
Hamlet
Othello
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In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Expertise
Infection
Vicious
Claim
Due
Mercifully
Pulled
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There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Different Characters
Types
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You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Emerging
Massive
Invent
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When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.
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Annoyed
Agent
Work Your Doing
Grape
Work Doing Your
Manager
Obligations
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What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Contradictory
Idiosyncrasies
Psychological
Great Character People
Collaborations
Complexities
Delights
Investigate
Stupidities
Types
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When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Bathroom
Hairdresser
Postman
Counter
Chip
Clerk
Herself
Shop
Salon
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I don't play the lottery, as I feel I have been really lucky in what I have been able to do in my life, but if I did win, it would be the usual things - helping out the people I love. I'd probably squander a few quid on all sorts of unnecessary crap!
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Lottery
Unnecessary
Usual
Life Love My Life
Quid
Squander
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I think anything that increases your understanding of the human condition... I think age and life, if you're lucky, makes you think deeper, and the other thing it makes you realize is that you never stop learning, and you never lose your fear of getting it wrong.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Deeper
Human Condition
Condition
Life Age Learning
Increases
Never Stop
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You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Endeavor
Mesh
Glove
Sum
Sum Total
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You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Disease
Immortal
Precipice
Life-Threatening
Peek
Supposed
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I'm sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you're supposed to, but I feel like it's time, when you get older, through experience, to... I started to feel quite... what's the word? ... intimidated by seeing both sides of everything.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Both Sides
Getting Older
Intimidated
Sides
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My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Character
Entertainment
Film
Might
Turns
Job
Actor
Character Me Know
Exist
Human Being
Present
Piece
Serve
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When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Army
Royal
Surrealist
Art Me School
Art Me Know
Genuinely
Driver
Join
Regiment
Tank
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