Tim Curry quotes:

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm good at my own company.

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

Don't dream it, be it.

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

Even smiling makes my face ache.

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

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

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

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.

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?

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

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

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 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've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

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.