Top 28 Bruce Robinson Quotes
#1. I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
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#2. My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.
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#3. Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
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#4. I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
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#5. I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
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#6. Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
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#7. You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.
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#8. Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.
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#9. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
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#10. I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.
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#11. I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.
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#12. Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.
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#14. I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
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#15. My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
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#16. When you see a giant, make sure it isn't a dwarf standing in a favourable light. Thus we approach 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper.
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#17. You don't have to be "insane" to cut people up, no matter how fiendishly you do it. You just have to hate enough.
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#18. Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
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#19. When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
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#20. I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
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#21. But this time of the year she was in her vaults, underground, and here she resided alone, spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue
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#23. Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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#24. I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.
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#25. BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.
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#26. He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.
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#27. If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
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