Quotations and phrases

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
-- 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

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
-- 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 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 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 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

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

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 read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin.
-- Tim Roth

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