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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. "

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Timothy Spall

Love

Claim

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

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

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

" I do believe in the power of love. "

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

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

" 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

Big

Older

" It's my job to manipulate feelings. "

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

Timothy Spall

Unemployment

Going

" You never know what is going to happen to you in life. "

" 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. "

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

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

Timothy Spall

Played

Offensive

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Know

Army

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