British - Actor | April 19, 1946 -
But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?
Tim Curry
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I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.
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I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.
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I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.
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I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.
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Kids will eat anything, won't they?
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Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.
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I love to sing.
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My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.
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My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.
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In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.
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