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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! "

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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

Life

Think

Age

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It's an odd world. "

Timothy Spall

Odd

World

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Job

You

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

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

" 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. "

" Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time. "

" I do believe in the power of love. "

" 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

Say

Playing

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

Timothy Spall

Played

Offensive

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters. "

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

" There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well. "

Timothy Spall

Unemployment

Going

" 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. "

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

Timothy Spall

Theatre

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

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

" 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

Love

Claim