top of page
.png){kind=small}
"How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Comparison quotes
"The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself."
"Human resource is limited to the duration of his/her lifespan while time is unlimited."
"A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination."
"Comparisons are like rigid fingers-eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it."
"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."
"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."
". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
"Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage."
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
Explore more quotes by Tim Roth
"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."
"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."
"Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me."
"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 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 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."
"You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin."
bottom of page