"Watching people just look out for themselves, I……" — Peter Mullan
"Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters."
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31 Quotes by Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan has 31 quotes on this site.
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Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
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A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a…
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A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers,…
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There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for…
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It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle -…
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I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or…
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In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half…
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If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have…
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I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
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Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and…
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When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
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Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown.…
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More Beggar Quotes
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge,…
— Mason Cooley
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
— Mary McCarthy
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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