Robbie Coltrane Quotes

• Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Call

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Bad, Give

• What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It’s a fantastic job.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Director, Fantastic

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Person, Makes

• The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lord, Rings, Explained

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Put, Impossible

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Eyes

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, past, Parents

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Put, Hell, Big

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Children

• Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Beautiful, Full

• I’ve signed on for four movies, and I’ll do four. That’s easy. No complications there.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Easy

• I’ve got two young kids. I don’t know what the future holds.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Young

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Job, Money

  Tags in Best

• I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.\

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupid, Hard, Discover

• I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Made, Sometimes

• I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything’s a bit brighter and more in focus.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Focus, Everything, Seems

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Honest, Books

• I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.

  Robbie Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Same

• 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 Coltrane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad

Robbie Coltrane (24)

Birth:	30th March, 1950
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Actor

About

Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the British TV series Cracker during the 1990s and as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.

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