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Tim Roth
British
Actor
About the author
I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Money
#Act
#Musicians
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#America
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,
British
Actor
#Film
#Challenge
#Comedy
#Fact
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Comparisons
I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
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,
British
Actor
#Acting
#Care
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,
British
Actor
#Time
#People
#Money
#Finance
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Family
#Being
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,
British
Actor
#Work
#Years
#Being
#Experience
#Actor
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Fight
I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Will
A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Character
#Love
#Play
I'm a workaholic.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
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,
British
Actor
#Practice
#Man
#Father
#Brother
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,
British
Actor
#Time
#Open
#Prison
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Reason
#Ideas
#Writers
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#First
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
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,
British
Actor
#Character
#Acting
#Life
#Will
#Pretty
#Pressure
#Actor
#Famous
#Intention
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Now
#Acceptance
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#First
#Romantic
When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Kids
#Actor
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
Tim Roth,
British
Actor
#Right
#Dogs
#Fiction
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,
British
Actor
#Right