Words matter. These are the best Timothy Spall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you’re just mad.
It’s an odd world.
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
You create a proto-human being out of people that you’ve encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person.
Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.
I do believe in the power of love.
Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.
You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.
I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards.
If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it’s just perfecting something.
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 the other thing it makes you realize is that you never stop learning, and you never lose your fear of getting it wrong.
I didn’t know whether to join the army or go to art college.
I think people’s imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.
You’re trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor.
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 it until you’re old. And there’s nothing like being told you’ve got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.
Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.
My wife… now travels with me everywhere – not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up and my son is now a very successful actor, Rafe Spall.
You never know what is going to happen to you in life.
If I can’t get hold of someone I love, I’ll assume they’re being tied to a radiator by al-Qaeda rather than their battery’s run out. I’m quite a worrier.
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 part; they’re just a bit funny-looking.
In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.
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.
What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I’ve done very well.
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 brief encounter with intellect.
