Tim Roth Quotes

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

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

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?

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.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

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

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

Now, people can watch the entire first series over a period that would probably take you a couple of nights.

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.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

Doing TV is a different kind of language.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.