Class Quote by Timothy Spall

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

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

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As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their…

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When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work…

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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…

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

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When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the…

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

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