Tim Curry

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

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

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.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

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

I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving.

I was a huge J.M. Barrie fan as a kid, as most English children are.

With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.

There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

I'm good at my own company.

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

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.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

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.

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

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?

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.