Tim Curry Quotes:
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.
Tim Curry
Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.
Tim Curry
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?
Tim Curry
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.
Tim Curry
Don’t dream it, be it.
Tim Curry
I’m not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
Tim Curry
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.
Tim Curry
Contrary to popular belief, I don’t just play dreadful old villains.
Tim Curry
Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.
Tim Curry
I’ve turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.
Tim Curry
I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.
Tim Curry
I like risky parts – abrasive characters the audience won’t necessarily like.
Tim Curry
Kids will eat anything, won’t they?
Tim Curry
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.
Tim Curry