Top 22 Tim Curry Quotes

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it’s a question of what use they put it to.

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author’s view, and I think that’s terribly dangerous.

I’ve turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

I’m not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t just play dreadful old villains.

I like risky parts – abrasive characters the audience won’t necessarily like.

I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone’s ear when they’re driving.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn’t it?

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.

Don’t dream it, be it.

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I’ve been able to… stomach.

But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you – that whatever talents you have, it… I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it’s your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?

There’s nothing more daunting than a musical, but there’s also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

Well, you know… I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That’s what there was in the butcher shop.

I’ve worked in a few sort of ‘institutional’ theaters – the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England – and they’re hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It’s that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I’ve done before because that keeps me awake. That’s why I want to be an actor – I don’t want to play endless variations on one character.