Tim Curry Quotes

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

Well, you know ... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it ... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to ... stomach.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

You can't stay away from the theater too long.

I was a huge J.M. Barrie fan as a kid, as most English children are.

I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.