Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Robinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Bruce Robinson.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Bruce Robinson is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed the cult classic Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town.

English - Novelist | Born: May 2, 1946

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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.

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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.

Bruce Robinson

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.

Bruce Robinson

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.

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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.

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

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.

Bruce Robinson

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.

Bruce Robinson

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

Bruce Robinson

Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Robinson

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