I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret]… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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