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Timothy Spall
English
Actor
Born:
Feb 27
,
1957
Character
Life
Love
Me
People
You
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I don't play the lottery, as I feel I have been really lucky in what I have been able to do in my life, but if I did win, it would be the usual things - helping out the people I love. I'd probably squander a few quid on all sorts of unnecessary crap!
Timothy Spall
Life
Love
People
Win
My Life
Few
Unnecessary
Out
Would
Would-Be
Able
Feel
Sort
Been
Lottery
Squander
Quid
Did
Crap
Really
Helping
Lucky
Usual
Play
Things
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.
Timothy Spall
Life
You
Learning
Age
Fear
Understanding
Lose
Think
Increases
Other
Never
Wrong
Never Stop
Makes
Condition
Getting
Human
Stop
Anything
Human Condition
Realize
Your
Lucky
Deeper
Thing
When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.
Timothy Spall
First
Own
Herself
Our
Bathroom
Born
Postman
Counter
Hairdresser
House
Clerk
Became
How
Up
Salon
Ended
Shop
Taught
Chip
Then
Worked
Dad
Mum
Her
I know I work quite hard at making people like me.
Timothy Spall
Work
Me
People
Like
Know
Making
Quite
Hard
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
Timothy Spall
Learning
Become
Way
See
About
Like
Know
Interested
Ever
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.
Timothy Spall
Character
Types
Bit
Characters
Part
Always
Same
Just
Different
Different Characters
Who
Actor
Play
Two
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.
Timothy Spall
Love
Me
Claim
Point
Through
Had
Mercifully
Due
Infection
Trying
Being
Vicious
Expertise
To Love
Treated
Pulled
I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it!
Timothy Spall
Love
People
Cinema
Absolutely
Two
Two People
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.
Timothy Spall
Feelings
Big
Older
Wrapped
Some
More
Feel
Instincts
Encounter
Intellect
Up
Bunch
Get
Brief
As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn't always go to plan.
Timothy Spall
Life
You
Older
Enjoy
Kids
Thoughtful
Carry
Triumphs
More
Take
Stuff
Sorrows
Always
Go
Get
Plan
Your
Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.
Timothy Spall
Time
Parallel
About
Something
Could
Talked
Unusual
Itself
Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.
Timothy Spall
World
Think
Universe
About
Rationally
Because
Scientifically
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.
Timothy Spall
You
Old
Mind
Thought
Precipice
Nothing
Peek
Immortal
Life-Threatening
Over
Concentrate
Like
Supposed
Until
Got
Get
Disease
Being
Little
Your
Start
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.
Timothy Spall
Life
You
People
Building
Out
Becoming
Encountered
Up
Person
Being
Create
Your
Start
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.
Timothy Spall
Me
Son
Wife
Lost
Everywhere
Kids
She
Because
Up
Very
Successful
Grown
Now
Actor
Grown-Up
Travels
Nearly
It's my job to manipulate feelings.
Timothy Spall
Job
Feelings
Manipulate
When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.
Timothy Spall
Work
You
Obligations
Spend
Top
About
Days
Hours
Annoyed
Talking
Doing
Up
Get
Manager
Turn
Agent
Ask
Your
Grape
Film
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.
Timothy Spall
You
Class
People
Mad
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Owned
Upper-Class
Just
Then
Working
Working-Class
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.
Timothy Spall
Love
Assume
Battery
Out
Run
Someone
Rather
Tied
Than
Get
Quite
Being
Hold
Al-Qaeda
I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.
Timothy Spall
Art
Army
College
Join
Know
Go
Art College
Whether
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.
Timothy Spall
Great
Character
People
Types
Our
Seven
Collaborations
Complexities
Has-Been
Delights
Investigate
Over
New
Stupidities
Idiosyncrasies
Been
Contradictory
Want
Psychological
Them
Actor
Present
I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this.
Timothy Spall
Seen
Believe
See
More
Never
Than
Just
I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.
Timothy Spall
World
Worth
Believe
Living
Worth Living
Kind
Some
Magic
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