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Quotes by Tim Roth

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
– Tim Roth
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
Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school.
– Tim Roth
Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong.
– Tim Roth
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
– Tim Roth
British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I'm not sure we share a language.
– Tim Roth
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.
– Tim Roth
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
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
– Tim Roth
Extra work sucks. Get out quick.
– Tim Roth
For me, acting's just great fun. A lot more fun than making sculptures, so that's what I wanted to do. It wasn't any great calling-maybe years later, when I'm 60 or whatever, I'll pretend it was, who knows?! But acting is just the most fun I could ever possibly have in my life... and it still is.
– Tim Roth
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
– Tim Roth
I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.
– Tim Roth
I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
– Tim Roth
I didn't want to make soundtrack film or a gun movie. These are the reasons I wanted to make a movie. I wanted to make an adult movie.
– Tim Roth
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
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
I like the Knicks, the Knicks are OK.
– Tim Roth
I love Charleston. That was one of the best experiences I have had making a film. I'm back to Carolina to do my next film.
– Tim Roth
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
– Tim Roth
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
I studied Speed Racer, Gigantor, and other pop culture TV courtesy of Quentin.
– Tim Roth
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
I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It's getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks.
– Tim Roth
I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
– Tim Roth
I'd like to work with Danny Boyle, I think he'd be great to work with. Abel Ferrara I'd like to work with. Jim Jarmusch. If Werner Hertzog does another film, I'd like to work with him. And James Gray, too, I'd love to work with him again, I think he's incredible.
– Tim Roth
I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.
– Tim Roth
I'm a workaholic.
– Tim Roth
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
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
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
– Tim Roth
My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people.
– Tim Roth
One of the guys who worked at the Ape School became my stunt double so we just kept working on different things and just play around.
– Tim Roth
People remember villians. Sometimes in an action movie or sci-fi movie, being a villain is actually kind of interesting.
– Tim Roth
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.
– Tim Roth
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
– Tim Roth
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.
– Tim Roth
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
– Tim Roth
We made lots of films with blue lights and smoke. It's like our films were an audiiton for Hollywood, and we shouldn't be doing that.
– Tim Roth
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
– Tim Roth
When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.
– Tim Roth
You can take on the problems of the makeup and use them to your advantage. I was always working against the costume, it was compressing me all the time, so I used it to make my movements a little more liquid. The process became depressing and exhausting. It was quite a long shoot. Although I wasn't on every day, it still takes it out of you. But once you're in the role and the cameras start rolling, it's fun. I forget about the makeup. The makeup and costumes actually help me.
– Tim Roth
You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin.
– Tim Roth
My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
– Tim Roth