Tim Roth Quotes

"I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."

"Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I'm not sure we share a language."

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

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

"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."

"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."