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. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
