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All Quotes by author - Timothy Spall

" 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. "

" Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe. "

" Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad. "

" I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in. "

" I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college. "

" I do believe in the power of love. "

" I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front. "

" 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! "

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

" 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. "

" If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well. "

" If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something. "

" I know I work quite hard at making people like me. "

" I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it. "

" I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it! "

" Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage. "

" 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. "

" I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. "

" 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. "

" I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button. "

" It's an odd world. "

" It's my job to manipulate feelings. "

" I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this. "

" I was always insecure about the way I looked. "

" Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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