Timothy Spall Quotes

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.