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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

Job

You

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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

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. "

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

Timothy Spall

Believe

Never

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Timothy Spall

Way

See

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

" 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. "

" 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

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

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

" It's an odd world. "

Timothy Spall

Odd

World

" I do believe in the power of love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "