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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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" 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. "

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Life

Think

Age

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 do believe in the power of love. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now! "

Timothy Spall

Played

Offensive

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

" It's my job to manipulate feelings. "

" 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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Way

See

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "

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

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

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

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

Timothy Spall

Theatre

" 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

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Playing