Tim Roth Quotes
"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."
- Tim Roth
(Related: 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
(Related: Challenge, Comedy, Fact, Film)
"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
(Related: Comparisons)
"I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed."
- 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Finance, Money, Time, People)
"I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back."
- Tim Roth
(Related: 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
(Related: Experience, Work, Actor, Being, Years)
"Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Fight)
"I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Will)
"A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Love, Character, Play)
"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
(Related: Father, Brother, Man, Practice)
"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Ideas, Reason, Writers)
"The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead."
- Tim Roth
(Related: First)
"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
(Related: Life, Character, Acting, Actor, Famous, Intention, Pressure, Pretty, Will)
"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Acceptance, Now)
"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it."
- Tim Roth
(Related: 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
(Related: Actor, Kids)
"You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Dogs, Fiction, Right)
"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
(Related: Right)