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" 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. "

Timothy Spall

Nothing

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Old

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" 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 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. "

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

" It's an odd world. "

Timothy Spall

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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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

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

" 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

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "