Tim Curry

“Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.”

“Don't dream it, be it.”

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

“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.”

“With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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