Timothy Spall

I do believe in the power of love.

— Timothy Spall

It's my job to manipulate feelings.

— Timothy Spall

It's an odd world.

— Timothy Spall

I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards.

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just…

— Timothy Spall

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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…

— Timothy Spall

In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim…

— 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…

— Timothy Spall

I'm sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you're supposed to, but I feel…

— 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 -…

— Timothy Spall

My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up…

— Timothy Spall

I don't play the lottery, as I feel I have been really lucky in what I have been able to do in…

— Timothy Spall

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…

— Timothy Spall

When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to…

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

— Timothy Spall

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— 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…

— Timothy Spall

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…

— Timothy Spall