Tim Roth Quotes

#1. The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

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#2. 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.

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#3. My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

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#4. 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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#5. The first role I ever did ... I played a Nazi skinhead.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

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#9. I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

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#10. You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

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#11. I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

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#12. Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

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#13. How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

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#14. 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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#15. I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

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#16. There just seems to be more acceptance now of ... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

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#17. 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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#18. Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

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#19. A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

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#20. 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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#21. I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

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#25. I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

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#26. Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason ... to write for me.

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#27. 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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