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Timothy West

Born: October 20, 1934

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Biography: Timothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English film, stage and television actor.

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Timothy West

“A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.”

- Timothy West

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Timothy West

“Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.”

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Timothy West

“Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.”

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Timothy West

“I don't believe in right-angled turning points.”

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Timothy West

“I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.”

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Timothy West

“I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.”

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“In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.”

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“Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.”

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“No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.”

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“Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.”

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“The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.”

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“The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.”

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“The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.”

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“The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.”

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