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Tim Roth

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


— Tim Roth


#compare #comparisons #how #i #kubrick

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.


— Tim Roth


#functions #get #i #invited #jewish

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.


— Tim Roth


#any #as far as #back #because #been

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.


— Tim Roth


#best #different #director #directors #every

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


— Tim Roth


#cary #cary grant #did #everything #grant

I'm a workaholic.


— Tim Roth


#workaholic

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


— Tim Roth


#communist party #country #dad #fought #his

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


— Tim Roth


#ever #first #i #played #role

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


— Tim Roth


#better #characters #concerned #far #i

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


— Tim Roth


#british #films #just #kinds #more






About Tim Roth

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Did you know about Tim Roth?

He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto a controversial drama based on a novel by Farukh Dhondy set in Brick Lane and broadcast by the BBC in 1986. His father was born with the surname Smith in SheepTim Rothad Bay Brooklyn New York to an English immigrant family; he changed his surname to Roth in the 1940s "partly through solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust partly because the English were far from welcome in some of the countries to which his job took him". He played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears' The Hit with Terence Stamp and John Hurt earning an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

He is known for his roles in the films Reservoir Dogs Pulp Fiction Made in Britain Skellig Planet of the Apes The Incredible Hulk and Rob Roy for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He starred as Cal Lightman in the TV series Lie to Me.

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