Tim Roth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.”
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“I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.”
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“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.”
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“How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.”
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“There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.”
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“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.”
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“I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.”
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“I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.”
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“My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.”
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“The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.”
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“When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.”
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“I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.”
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“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.”
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“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
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“I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.”
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“Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.”
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“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.”
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“Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.”
-- Tim RothSource : "Interview With Tim Roth" by Steven Horn, www.ign.com. August 1, 2001.
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“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 RothSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.”
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“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.”
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“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.”
-- Tim Roth
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