Best Trainspotting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam... that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body.”

Inner Peace Trainspotting

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Source: Trainspotting

“Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can’t relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We’re becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We’re getting dressed up.”

Independence Scotland Trainspotting Indyref Alan Bissett Death Of A Ladies Man

Book:Death of a Ladies' Man

Source: Death of a Ladies' Man

“We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclozine, codeine, temazepam, nitrezepam, phenobarbitone, sodium amytal dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, buprenorphine, dextromoramide chlormethiazole. The streets are awash with drugs that you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all. Fuck it, we would have injected Vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal.”

Novel Drugs Scottish Trainspotting

Author:Irwin Welsh

“Si por mi fuera, pillaria todos los libros que hay, haria una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaría todos. Los libros sólo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leído. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les daré yo jodidos libros.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“La sociedad inventa una lógica falsa y retorcida para absorber y canalizar el comportamiento de la gente cuyo comportamiento está fuera de los cánones mayoritarios.”

Society Drugs Trainspotting

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Source: Trainspotting

“take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace”

Feeling Drugs Orgasm Fucking Trainspotting Irvine Welsh Renton

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Source: Trainspotting

“I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them”

Love Sex Trainspotting

Book:Dead Men's Trousers

Source: Dead Men's Trousers

“Fuck you and your First World problems! If every cunt that had taken their first ecky commited adultery by jacksie-rifling the first psycho fucker who smiled at them, not one worthwhile relationship in Britain would still exist!”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.”

Learning Failure Trainspotting

Book:Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

“Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n аw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“Me contó un montón de cosas que yo no quería oír, cosas que mi madre y mi padre nunca supieron, y que odiarían saber. Lo cabrón que era Billy con ella. Cómo en ocasiones la golpeaba, la humillaba, y la trataba en general como un trozo de mierda excepcionalmente corrompida. "¿Por qué te quedaste con él?" "Era mi chico. Siempre piensas que será diferente, que puedes hacerle cambiar, que tú puedes suponer la diferencia." Eso lo entendía, Pero es un error. Los únicos hijoputas que supusieron alguna vez una diferencia para Billy fueron los Provisionales, y ellos también eran unos cabrones. No tengo ninguna ilusión sobre ellos como luchadores de la libertad. Los muy hijoputas convirtieron a mi hermano en un montón de comida para gatos. Pero ellos sólo tiraron de la palanca. Su muerte fue concebida por esos cabrones anaranjaos que venían por aquí todos los meses de julio con sus fajines y sus flautas, llenando la estúpida cabeza de Billy con insensateces acerca de la corona y la nación y toda esa mierda. Ellos irán a casa felices por el día de hoy. Pueden contarles a todos sus colegas cómo murió asesinado por el IRA uno de la familia mientras defendía el Ulster. Eso alimentará su ira sin objeto, hará que les inviten a copas en los pubs, y consolidará su credibilidad memo-bastarda entre otros tontolabas sectarios.”

Guerra Trainspotting Violencia Machista Irvine Welsh

Book:Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

“This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.”

Addicts Trainspotting Junkies

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Source: Trainspotting

“I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.”

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Author:Malcolm McDowell

“When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies. So I've always loved the energies of those movies. But also, that they are very focused on the characters. Cause it's not only gimmickery, it's not only about visuals. You feel a real need, a love for the main characters. So that's what I've always loved about watching movies myself.”

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Author:Fredrik Bond

“I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!”

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Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies [means before he met him]. I just worked with him and felt the energy of what he is about initially before I do something. In a way, I think that's why we have discovered each other rather than replicate something else.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.”

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Author:Andrew Flintoff

“I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture flourished.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are gone. 'Trainspotting' did not, and especially with journalists. So whenever I launched a new film, I'd end up talking about 'Trainspotting.'”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”

Source: Trainspotting

“I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“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.”

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Author:Peter Mullan

“I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.”

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Author:Max Baucus

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