Tim Roth Quotes

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.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

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

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

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

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

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

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.

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

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 have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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