Tim Roth Quotes

23 quotations by Tim Roth

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a workaholic.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

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

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