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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

Successful

Son

She

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Timothy Spall

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You

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Unemployment

Going

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Timothy Spall

Say

Playing

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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. "

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

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" 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

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

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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. "

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

Timothy Spall

Theatre

" 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

" 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. "

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Know

Army

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

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