Rip Quotations | Page 6

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

When you think about what they have to deal with, and the discussions they need to have in treatment group, it's tough stuff to talk about, and to come to grips with, then do something about.

When you take in to account travel time and time difference, there's few harder away trips in world football. We're determined to get a result though, because we know how important it is to get off to a good start in this league.

When you strip out those acquisitions and new partnerships to really get a sense of what the company's core business is doing, it really struggled through the first half of the year.

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

When you strip away the passion and the rhetoric, the simple fact is smoking is a hazard. The restaurants are a public work place. Therefore, it should be restricted.

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.