Bruce Robinson Quotations

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

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.

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.

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.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.

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.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?

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.

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.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

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.

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.