top of page
.png){kind=small}
"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
Standard
Customized
More
"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."
Grave
"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
Life
"Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours."
People
"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
Music
"I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did."
First
"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
Movies
"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London."
Acting
"I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber."
Dance
"As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them."
Love
"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned."
Work
bottom of page