Robbie Coltraine famous quotes

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#School #Autumn #Potters

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Years #People #Twenties

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Thinking #Expression #Years

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Children #Appreciate #Approval

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Dad #Teenager #Past

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Dad #Kids #Parenting

I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made,
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Beautiful #Worry #Sometimes

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Beautiful #Stars #Mean

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Book #Years #Numbers

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Focus #World #Film

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Thinking #Giving #Brave

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Jobs #People #Decision

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Moving #Want #Impossible

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Smart #Crow #Taught

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Stars #Hollywood #Film

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#New York #Clever #Views

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Past #Car #Done

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Beautiful #Beautiful Women #World

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Eye #People #Nightmare

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Respect #Noise #Rooms

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Children #Believe #Parenting

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Kids #Two #Young

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Lord #Backgrounds #Rings

It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Lunch #Stuff #Beard

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Mistake #Thinking #Mirrors

I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Art #Taken #School

Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Mean #Animal #Names

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Years #Self #Levels

My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Son #Way #Wonderful

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Stupid #Thinking #Owl