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

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?

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 believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

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 learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I could go for a sandwich, but I’m not gonna open two jars.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.