Quotes About Trainspotting

#1. I don't go birdwatching. I am birdwatching. Birdwatching is a state of being, not an activity. It doesn't depend on place, on equipment, on specific purpose, like, say, fishing. It is not a matter of organic trainspotting; it is about life and it is about living.

Simon Barnes

#2. I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.

Ewan McGregor

#3. Choose Trainspotting.

Harry Whitewolf

#4. I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

Malcolm McDowell

#5. While modern women take charge in the boardroom or form their own rugby teams, none have yet demanded acceptance in the world of trainspotting.

Nicholas Whittaker

#6. I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Irvine Welsh

#7. I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

Andrew Flintoff

#8. When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

Irvine Welsh

#9. Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can't relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We're becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We're getting dressed up.

Alan Bissett

#10. Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

Jonny Lee Miller

#12. It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

Irvine Welsh

#13. Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

Irvine Welsh

#14. You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

Irvine Welsh

#15. Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Irvine Welsh

#16. I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

Irvine Welsh

#18. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

Marilyn Monroe

#19. How much is real and for how long..

J. Limbu

#20. The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Jane Austen

#21. This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

Irvine Welsh

#22. I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

Ezra Furman

#23. What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

Franz Schubert

#24. It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Irvine Welsh