Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Tim Curry

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.

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

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.

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

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

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

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

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

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

Don't dream it, be it.

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.

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

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

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.

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

I'm good at my own company.

With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.

I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving.

There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

Kids will eat anything, won't they?

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

I really like the way that Jack Nicholson [acts] in particular works. I like the fact that he takes enormous risks. He's an enormously disciplined actor who seems to be totally capable of dealing with the business as a business and yet drop it totally when he's working.

Even smiling makes my face ache.

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

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.

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