I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes. Bruce Robinson More Quotes by Bruce Robinson More Quotes From 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 brain hair men You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner. Bruce Robinson runners miles ifs We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell. Bruce Robinson stopped-clock drifting arena Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane. Bruce Robinson eccentric insane 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 atheist past years If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day. Bruce Robinson day you dog life 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 never job me money 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 yourself feel you style My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it. Bruce Robinson actor being shy problem I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money. Bruce Robinson person money religious god I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist. Bruce Robinson been always communist luxury I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight. Bruce Robinson good you good-person age Well, I had the most appalling childhood. Bruce Robinson had well most childhood I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much. Bruce Robinson diary really very like 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 movies how behave people I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value. Bruce Robinson value always comedy stage Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made? Bruce Robinson get someone who film 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 i-am feeling wake-up god 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 me childhood happy life
