Timothy Spall Quotes

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.

Timothy Spall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 27, 1957

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SonWifeMeLostNowActor

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Jimmy Carter

LifeHomeManChildMy LifeNews

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

Max Aaron

BestDayMeEvery DayMatterAlways

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

John Ruskin

PrideDoneNothingWhichEverNobly

My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.

Steve Blake

SonWaterFunMeHave FunFish

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

ArroganceImportantHumanConvictions

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Martin Scorsese

SchoolParentsHouseGoBooksWere

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

Michelle Hunziker

MyselfStressLearnTelevisionGo

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Michael Leunig

FatherManWiseMeWise ManSmiling

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Jon Corzine

FamilyRichPovertyLiftOutEven

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Desiderius Erasmus

AgeManKissHelpEnemyHug

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Anthony Hopkins

LifeGoodNightGood LifeToo Much

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Scott Weiland

LookingWayMy OwnWriteApathyOwn

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