Timothy Spall Quotes

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.

I have no 'dream role.' It just comes to me; it's very intuitive, and I say, 'OK, I have to do this now.' It's not logical; just, 'I have to jump into this very strange character,' or something like that. I can't even explain it.

I'm not really trying to be too much of an actor or anything.

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

I've never been ambitious.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I'm just an actor.

I'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

I love playing odd roles.

It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.

I'm just a character actor.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.

I was a pretty mediocre player.