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Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan Biography

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Peter Mullan, born on November 2, 1959, is a distinguished Scottish actor. He has made remarkable contributions to both film and television, known for his profound performances and unique character portrayals.

Peter Mullan, born on November 2, 1959, is a distinguished Scottish actor. He has made remarkable contributions to both film and television, known for his profound performances and unique character portrayals.

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“I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.”

Way Trying Character Actors Nasty

Author:Peter Mullan

“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.”

Want Firsts Wanted Values Leader Military Structure Looking Good Arbitrary Gang Babe

Author:Peter Mullan

“I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!”

People Ifs Made Hate Given Pieces I Hate Grandmother Furniture

Author:Peter Mullan

“I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.”

Knows Ends Sometimes Jobs Guy Acting The End Of The Day Pubs Catharsis And At The End Of The Day

Author:Peter Mullan

“Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.”

Actors Ten Nine Frustrated Delinquents

Author:Peter Mullan

“Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.”

Want Filmmaking

Author:Peter Mullan

“The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I found out very early on, that the lead comic gets the girl. So, that was cool. When I went to university, I studied Economic Social History. And drama. That kind of got me into it. My main passion was to make films. It was never to be an actor. At that time, there weren't many opportunities for a working class Scottish actor. It was kind of an English thing. And it required a certain mannered cerebral acting style that I couldn't relate to.”

Kind Film Girl Passion Opportunity Acting Economic Style Drama I Realized Comic Working Class Scottish Pretty Girl

Author:Peter Mullan

“The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.”

People Moments Earth Acting Appreciate

Author:Peter Mullan

“There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.”

People Walks Rooms Air Smell Being There Fresh Air

Author:Peter Mullan

“In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.”

Thinking I Can Term Perfection Cinema Nests Flew Cuckoos One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Author:Peter Mullan

“Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.”

Church Huge Connections Relation Catholic Leap Imaginative Catholic Church Taliban

Author:Peter Mullan

“I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.”

Has Beens Kids Hero Mets Right Now Harry Potter Darling Potters Deathly Hallows

Author:Peter Mullan

“Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.”

Life Is Fiction Absurd

Author:Peter Mullan

“A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.”

Kind Actors Directors Fallacy Good Directors

Author:Peter Mullan

“A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.”

Actors Minutes Directors Scripts Useless Designer

Author:Peter Mullan

“There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.”

Prejudice Peaceful Aggression Competitiveness Bohemia

Author:Peter Mullan

“It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.”

Ifs Kind Doe Ideas Ends Helping Strong Brain Media Politician Absolutes Myth Good Ideas Very Strong

Author:Peter Mullan

“I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'”

Knows Play Age Remember Father Football Hug

Author:Peter Mullan

“In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.”

Knows Long Fighting Games Acting Half Directors Long Time Perceive

Author:Peter Mullan

“If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.”

Ifs Writing Years Wells Has Beens Home Past House My Own Clean

Author:Peter Mullan

“I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.”

World Kids Absurd

Author:Peter Mullan

“Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.”

Knows World Reason Achieve Crime Gains Profit Criminals Reason Why Obsessed Boss

Author:Peter Mullan

“When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.”

Turns Comedy Painful

Author:Peter Mullan

“Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.”

Knows Real Film Directors Casts Exception Braveheart Breakdown Exhaustion Cameraman Trainspotting

Author:Peter Mullan

“The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.”

Made Film Enjoy Maverick

Author:Peter Mullan

“In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.”

People Want Church Religious Known Audience Subjects Catholic Fingers Oppression Kicks Throat Tolerate Catholic Church Poke Theocracy

Author:Peter Mullan

“Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.”

Sometimes Understanding Gains Demon

Author:Peter Mullan

“It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.”

Ifs Want Giving Feels Writing Done Turns Baby Direct My Baby

Author: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.”

People Thinking Looks Interesting Opera Beggar

Author:Peter Mullan

“What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?”

Ifs Looks May America Wealth

Author:Peter Mullan

“The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.”

Made Lying Wish Term Relation Made It Packs Public Relations

Author:Peter Mullan

“I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.”

Thinking Way Film Winning Five Cutting Let Me Awards Mates Oscars Braveheart Really Mean

Author:Peter Mullan

“You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.”

Imagination Instinct

Author:Peter Mullan

“There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Looks Ideas Hate Actors Minutes Directors Criticism Guts Good Ideas Hate You

Author:Peter Mullan

“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.”

Thinking Truth Is Bases

Author:Peter Mullan

About the Author

Born: November 2, 1959
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 35

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