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

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

— Timothy Spall

It's an odd world.

— Timothy Spall

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

— Timothy Spall

You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and…

— Timothy Spall

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

— 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

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

— 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

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research…

— Timothy Spall

My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being…

— 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