Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Timothy Spall

Play

Two

Different

Related Quotes:

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

" I do believe in the power of love. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

Timothy Spall

Way

See

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

" 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 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

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

" It's an odd world. "

Timothy Spall

Odd

World

" It's my job to manipulate feelings. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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

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

" 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