English - Actor | February 27, 1957 -
These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.
Timothy Spall
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It's my job to manipulate feelings.
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Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.
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My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.
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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.
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I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this.
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