Bruce Robinson Quotes

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.

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

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

You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it will do something else to your brain. You will make it low. Why trust one drug and not the other?

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

Here. Hare. Here. Here hare here!

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We've gone on holiday by mistake

Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.

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.

BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.

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

Concealing the Ripper was not a Masonic conspiracy, but a conspiracy of Her Majesty's executive, who almost without exception were Freemasons. In other words, it was a conspiracy of the System.

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