Tim Roth famous quotes

05-17-2025

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
-- Tim Roth

#Character #Play
I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
-- Tim Roth

#Fall
I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
-- Tim Roth

#Thinking #Years #Actors
I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.
-- Tim Roth

#Believe #I Believe #Monasteries
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
-- Tim Roth

#Trying #Compare #Comparison
There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
-- Tim Roth

#Acceptance #Kind #Film
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.
-- Tim Roth

#Asking #Too Much #Teeth
I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.
-- Tim Roth

#Awful #Function
I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
-- Tim Roth

#Watches #Bergman #Made
My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
-- Tim Roth

#Country #Dad #Party
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.
-- Tim Roth

#Roles #Firsts #Nazi
When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.
-- Tim Roth

#Running #Hurt #Kids
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
-- Tim Roth

#Hands #Acting #Care
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
-- Tim Roth

#People #Trying #Credit
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
-- Tim Roth

#Hands #Editors #Challenges
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
-- Tim Roth

#Writing #Ideas #Might
I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.
-- Tim Roth

#Scare #Musician #More Money
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.
-- Tim Roth

#Change #Nice #Thinking
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
-- Tim Roth

#Children #Thinking #Government
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
-- Tim Roth

#Missing #Tourism #Tourists
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
-- Tim Roth

#Thinking #Romantic Love #Firsts
I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.
-- Tim Roth

#Thinking #Different #Directors
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.
-- Tim Roth

#America #Extraordinary
I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
-- Tim Roth

#Jobs #Thinking #Unemployment
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
-- Tim Roth

#Character #Concerned
I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
-- Tim Roth

#Brother #Real #Father
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
-- Tim Roth

#Movie #Dog #Scripts

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