Tim Roth Quotes

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

"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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'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 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."

"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."