English - Actor | February 27, 1957 -
Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.
Timothy Spall
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Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.
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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.
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If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
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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.
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You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.
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There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.
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I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.
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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!
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When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist.
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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.
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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.
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