Trainspotting Quotes

• 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?

  Irvine Welsh

  Needs, Reason, Heroin

  "Fictional character: Renton". "Trainspotting", 1996.

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• I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2010.

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

  Irvine Welsh

  Selfish, Welsh, Concepts

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Character, Political, Sound

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Death, Dying

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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

  Ewan McGregor

  Scotland, Toilets

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

  Irvine Welsh

  Process, States, Happened

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Irvine Welsh

  Levels, Stuff, Higher

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Work Out, Good Man, Albatross

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Irvine Welsh

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Filth

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Boys, Sick

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Mean, Work Out, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.'

  Danny Boyle

  Successful, Talking, Gone

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Andrew Flintoff

  Glue, Welsh, Written

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mean, Thinking, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Fredrik Bond

  Real, Character, Causes

  Source: collider.com

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• 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!

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 14, 2009.

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Doctors, Crow

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• 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.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Stars, Couple, Done

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2011.

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• 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.

  Peter Mullan

  Real, Directors, Film

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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