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Bruce Robinson [1946-0] English

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Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I, a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as "a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor" in Camden Town.

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If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.		101
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.		102
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.		103
I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.		104
Well, I had the most appalling childhood.		105
I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.		106
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.		107
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.		108
My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.		109
I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.		110
I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.		111
I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.		112
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.		113
I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.		114
Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?		115

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