Top 155 Tim Quotes

There’s a family tradition of fighting in the Kansas City Golden Gloves. My older brother, Tim, did, and so did my father’s two youngest brothers, Trent and Troy. They all won the Golden Gloves. So when my mother asked me to keep the tradition going, I did.

When you’re on film or TV, essentially you’re in front of the camera. Unless it’s a Tim Burton thing, the desire is to be real and grounded.

For me, I really love ‘Tim and Eric’ and ‘Dr. Steve Brule’ and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

Sometimes I am lucky enough to hang out with Tim Key and he is constantly funny. Every moment. When I haven’t seen him for a bit I do his voice in my head to entertain myself.

I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I’ve been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper – something a little stronger.

Tim O’Brien’s book about Vietnam, ‘The Things They Carried’, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it’s fiction.

To join the likes of Mark Schwarzer and Tim Cahill is an honor and one I am proud of.

I feel like I’m the Tim Duncan of boxing.

A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I’ve only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn’t it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?

Doing Tim’s film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

I love Michael Keaton. I think he’s awesome – he’s such an awesome actor – like the ‘Beetlejuice’ films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.

There’s tons of dudes – like David O’Doherty, Tim Key, and Alex Horne – I made a lot of friends with people who are really incredible comics.

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn’t really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.

If you speak to his friends like Adam Sandler, David Spade or Tim Meadows – the people he came up with at ‘SNL’ – they would all agree that Norm was the purest amongst them. He was the comic’s comic.

From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.

Working on ‘Drive’, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I’ve worked with before on ‘Firefly’ of course. He called me up and said, ‘I’ve got a part for you that you will love,’ and I love Tim’s writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

Tim Kaine is a good man.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Our focus is on electing Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Democrats across the country, thanks to Democratic Party that is strong, unified, and poised for victory in November.

When I first came into the league, I was with Tim Dwight in San Diego, and a guy named Eric Parker, who really showed me the work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver, and I’ve really tried to keep that with me.

All the people I looked up to – Roseanne, Tim Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld – were stand-up comedians who used humor to get TV shows. I’m on TV now, and I’m working towards getting my own show.

Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself – those are four guys that can score 25 points per game.

I want to be host of ‘SNL.’ I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler – he is so funny – and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Probably the first artist who really captured me was Tim McGraw. His songs ‘Don’t Take the Girl’ and ‘Indian Outlaw’ were fun, and he was different than a lot of artists.

I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: ‘Bloody hell this coffee’s hot!’ which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

People sometimes come up to me and call me Tiger Tim. Why am I called that? I don’t know, it starts with T and I don’t know. It has stuck.

I remember Tim Meadows gave me a radio. It was a radio he didn’t want anymore. I gave it to my grandmother, and she had it ’til the day she died. To me, it was, ‘I got a thing from Tim Meadows!’ I think my grandmother was like, ‘I got a thing from my grandson!’

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me ‘Kid’ because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

Tim Duncan was a marvelous player. He played the game from the four, the five position. He was one of the unique players, like a Michael Jordan, who could get to spaces on the floor you that you couldn’t do anything about.

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.

I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.

Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band on vocals after Tim left in 1970.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

I was the idiot on the couch, ‘I could beat some of these guys!’ I would say that about Tim Sylvia. But I was like, ‘Freakin’ Arlovski, he looks like an athlete.’ He looked rock solid.

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of ‘Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.’

Some artists will tell you that’s all they want to do is write their own music, and that’s great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn’t write everything they recorded, and they’ve had major, major careers. I think it’s all about the best song.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

Britain helped create the Internet – Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That’s when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.

Tim Duncan did it. Dirk Nowitzki did it. I just want to be one of those guys… that stays for the city, play for the city for 20 years.

I think everybody’s ideal is to have a wonderful career with one franchise, like Kobe and Tim Duncan.

I think you’re very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That’s whether you’re Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

The first movie I fell in love with was Tim Burton’s ‘Batman,’ which isn’t Chicago, obviously, it’s Gotham.

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It’s a joyful approach to darkness.

Tim Minchin and Daniel Kitson are the two people that when I see them, I think I could never be that funny or that clever.

The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were the ones quick to criticize Tim Tebow for bending a knee to pray and thank God on the field.

I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.

When I’m done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That’s my biggest dream.

One of the undervalued contributors to Trump’s stunning 2016 victory was the masterful performance Pence had in his debate against Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, who was admittedly a bit of a disaster.

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he’s now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He’s a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

Tim Allen is a valuable part of the Disney ABC family and has been for a very, very long time.

I picked ‘It’s Not Unusual,’ and then I did the little hop that Tom Jones does and moved my hips. Tim loved it. He came up to me and said, ‘Did you know that I used Tom Jones in ‘Edward Scissorhands’?’