I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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