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 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 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… — Timothy Spall Copy Share
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
