Quotes by Christopher Timothy - Page 1

Birmingham is my second home.
Christopher Timothy /
Birmingham
Second Home
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I left drama school in the early '50s.
Christopher Timothy /
Drama School
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My dad was the original announcer on The Goon Show.'
Christopher Timothy /
Announcer
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When you get to a certain age any big change is hard to deal with.
Christopher Timothy /
Big Change
Certain Age
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I'm delighted there's a younger audience discovering James Herriot.
Christopher Timothy /
Delighted
Discovering
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I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.
Christopher Timothy /
Young Actor
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One time I had to file the teeth of a carthorse. They're such gentle creatures.
Christopher Timothy /
Gentle
One Time
Teeth
File
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One of the reasons I didn't tell people I had cancer was I thought it might affect work.
Christopher Timothy /
Affect
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You have to remember: I grew up in the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies and rock 'n' roll.
Christopher Timothy /
Cowboy
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It was a tricky part to play, because Herriot is both a fictional character and a real person.
Christopher Timothy /
Real Person
Tricky
Fictional
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I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.
Christopher Timothy /
For The People
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When I didn't work on TV, that was OK because I was doing lots of theatre but I did begin to panic a bit.
Christopher Timothy /
Panic
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I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.
Christopher Timothy /
Puppets
Hanging
Skeleton
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My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.
Christopher Timothy /
Broadway
Chips
Attended
Reviewed
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Alf Wight was remarkable, and I keep in touch regularly with his children Rosie and Jim, I love them dearly and I owe them.
Christopher Timothy /
Remarkable
Rosie
Dearly
Owe
Jim
Regularly
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My son Simon had one of Elvis's favorite meals when we visited Graceland - a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Fried! Can you imagine the cholesterol?
Christopher Timothy /
Meals
Peanut Butter
Banana
Butter
Elvis
Fried
Peanut
Sandwich
Simon
Visited
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I don't know whether having cancer has changed my attitude to life. I can't even say that now I live every day to the fullest I think I always have, really.
Christopher Timothy /
Fullest
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Oddly, I'm not a huge fan of Brisbane in Australia. I can't quite put my finger on why - it just seemed to lack verve, and I don't have any great desire to go back.
Christopher Timothy /
Finger
Huge Fan
Oddly
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Alf Wight was first and foremost a great storyteller. From all the interesting people Alf had spoken to from all over the country, particularly vets, Alf wrote their stories down.
Christopher Timothy /
Interesting
Stories
Great People Country
Particularly
Foremost
Great Country People
Interesting People
Spoken
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I remember once going to see my agent and going up the stairs to his office to hear him screaming down the phone, He's not a vet, he's an actor!' and that confirmed all my worst fears.
Christopher Timothy /
Stairs
Agent
Confirmed
Fears
Screaming
Vet
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Pebble Mill was packed with a lot of talent and a lot of really, really good stuff came out of Birmingham. It was a tragedy that it closed. It was the most famous TV centre in the country.
Christopher Timothy /
Birmingham
Centre
Tragedy
Closed
Mill
Packed
Pebble
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I spent a week in Wensleydale with a real vet called Jack Watkinson, living with him and going out on calls at 4 A. M. Sticking my hand up cows' bums became second nature. I got really good at it.
Christopher Timothy /
Cows
Bums
Calls
Jack
Second Nature
Sticking
Vet
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Even after the first three series, I'm sure I would've been known all my life as James Herriot. I was concerned that I would dig the hole deeper, and I'm sure that's what I've done. I'm sure of it.
Christopher Timothy /
Deeper
Life Done My Life
All My Life
Dig
Life My Life Done
Hole
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My agent suggested me to EastEnders casting director, Julia Crampsie, who I already knew. I'm delighted that Julia said, He's not old enough is he?' My agent told her how old I really am and she said Oh'!
Christopher Timothy /
Casting
Delighted
Julia
Agent
Me Enough Old
Old Enough
Suggested
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A lot of people went to posh universities, but I left at 17 to work for three years at Frank Newton's Gentleman's Outfitters in Shrewsbury, where I gained a professional qualification in how to measure a suit.
Christopher Timothy /
Frank
Newton
Posh
Gained
Measure
Qualification
Suit
Universities
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I get stopped in the street now and asked, What do I know you from?' My first reaction is to say All Creatures' and they say no. I say Doctors' and they say That's it' because they are so young. I have no complaints.
Christopher Timothy /
Complaints
Reaction
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I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few weeks later, an actor whispered in my ear, 'It sounds like you're in line for James Herriot.' I read every book in about 48 hours.
Christopher Timothy /
Ear
Whispered
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I love walking down Beale Street, which is home to countless cafes, restaurants and bars. Every bar has a live band, and as you walk along the street in the evening you can hear raw blues and rock n' roll spilling out of them.
Christopher Timothy /
Bars
Evening
Restaurants
Spilling
Bar
Blues
Countless
Raw
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Ideally, you have a company of actors who care more about the product than they do about themselves. In my experience, actors who believe the opposite - that they are the people who matter rather than the show - are rare in the extreme.
Christopher Timothy /
Ideally
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I was born in Bala, North Wales, and was sent to a private tutor. I seem to remember walking to the tutor by myself at the age of four - and sometimes going into a church school on the way and being allowed to stay until someone noticed.
Christopher Timothy /
Church
Tutor
Wales
Allowed
Age Myself Remember
North
Noticed
Private
Sent
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The whole of Yorkshire has been known throughout the world for various reasons, not least because of Wuthering Heights, but it was James Herriot I think that put Yorkshire on the international map and we are part of that, which is a great honor really.
Christopher Timothy /
Yorkshire
Heights
Map
Various Reasons
Wuthering
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I saw the police thriller The Blue Lamp' and remember realizing the power that Dirk Bogarde as the gangster exerted over the audience simply by his expressions in the close-ups. I could see how the people around me reacted to him and realized that I wanted to have the same effect.
Christopher Timothy /
Realizing
Gangster
Exerted
Expressions
Lamp
Thriller
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He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don't think I was always altogether successful.
Christopher Timothy /
Human Beings
Implied
Patient
Saint
Scripts
Altogether
Animals
Beings
Cared
Devalued
James
Qualities
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I had just finished playing a doctor in Doctors' and I had had to tell somebody that they had cancer. In that moment I thought, He's doing what I did!' We sat down and he said, I'm sorry, Mr. Timothy, but I've got bad news.' I thought, Oh!' He told me that they had found cancerous cells, but not a lot.
Christopher Timothy /
Bad News
Sorry
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At the time I discovered that I had prostate cancer, it was not long after my first wife had died, so my children had lost their mum. I felt that to tell them that I had prostate cancer, while I knew that I had it and there was a threat of some sort, I felt that it would be wise not to make things worse for them.
Christopher Timothy /
Prostate
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Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.
Christopher Timothy /
Bottom Line
Assume
Craft
Hone
Rehearse
Repeat
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The most exciting thing about joining EastEnders' is not only that I'll be back on the television, but I'll also be working with Maggie. I have admired her for a long time. She is one of my favorite actresses. Filming not just our first scenes but our first episode together will be like first night in the theatre - very exciting indeed.
Christopher Timothy /
Joining
Maggie
Admired
Time Together Long
Filming
Episode
Time Together Night
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