Timothy Spall Quotes (14 Quotes)


    You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, what's the point

    I'm not always fat, but when I'm thin, people don't seem to notice. I'm seen as a fat person no matter what shape I'm in.

    Are you asking me if I was shit I think you are. You reckon I was probably shit at driving. I find that sort of thing offensive. I didn't go on that show for people to tell me I'm bad at driving.

    If it's going well, and even if it's not, you know, it's a really interesting working environment. Because you usually have a lot of fun.

    What appealed to me was that here was this man who, on the one hand, liked to sing and entertain in local pubs, but who was also the most proficient killing machine of the last century. I was drawn to the incongruity of it.


    It was one of the first grown-up books I ever went out and bought. God knows why. He says in his book that his work was based entirely on a sense of duty. And his attitude and physical ability to separate it from his life is clear. Plus it is predicated on something we have forgotten about in modern society, which is an absolute sense of duty to God, King and country. He knew that his father and uncle took pride in the job.


    I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

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

    It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

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

    Unbeknownst to himself, he is on a kind of pilgrimage. This character, with a certain amount of self-delusion, thinks he is going to achieve closure without going through the pain of it.

    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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