Timothy Spall Quotes

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It’s my job to manipulate feelings.

Timothy 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.

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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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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

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.

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It’s an odd world.

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

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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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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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I played Othello at RADA – blacked up. I didn’t know it was going to be offensive now!

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I do believe in the power of love.

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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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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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I was always insecure about the way I looked.

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

Timothy Spall

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

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I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards.

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

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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.

Timothy Spall

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

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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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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’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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I didn’t know whether to join the army or go to art college.

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

Timothy Spall

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

Timothy Spall

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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I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it!

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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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