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" Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time. "
Timothy Spall
Unusual
Parallel
Something
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" 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. "
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Research
Together
You
" I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in. "
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Living
World
Magic
" I know I work quite hard at making people like me. "
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Hard
Work
People
" 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. "
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Work
Doing
Manager
" 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. "
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Start
Building
Life
" 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. "
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Own
Bathroom
First
" Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage. "
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Imagination
Beast
Cage
" 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. "
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Nothing
Start
Old
" I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college. "
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Art
Army
College
" It's an odd world. "
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Odd
World
" As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn't always go to plan. "
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Plan
Life
You
" I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this. "
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Believe
More
Never
" 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. "
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Character
Great
Want
" You never know what is going to happen to you in life. "
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Never
You
Going
" 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. "
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Play
Two
Different
" 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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My Life
Play
People
" 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. "
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Successful
Son
She
" 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. "
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Love
Hold
Someone
" I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front. "
Timothy Spall
Go
Like
Theatre
" 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. "
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Love
Claim
Me
" There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well. "
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Unemployment
Going
Like
" Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad. "
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People
Class
Working
" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "
Timothy Spall
Uncomfortable
Talking
Awards
" 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. "
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Job
You
Me
" 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. "
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Sake
You
World
" I do believe in the power of love. "
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Believe
Love
Power
" I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button. "
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Access
Information
Just
" 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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Time
Experience
Getting Older
" These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters. "
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People
Play
Characters
" I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it. "
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Like
Way
See