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Peter Mullan Biography

Peter Mullan (/ˈmʊlən/; born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe (1998), for which he won Best Actor Award at 1998 Cannes Film Festival and The Claim (2000). He is also winner of the World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances at 2011 Sundance Film Festival for his work on Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur (2011). Mullan appeared as supporting or guest actor in numerous cult movies, including Riff-Raff (1991), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Young Adam (2003), Children of Men (2006), War Horse (2011) and the Harry Potter film series (2010–11).

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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.

Air, Come, People, Smell, Suck

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

Filmmaking, Particularly, Want

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

Imagination, Instinct, Takes

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.

Against, Director, Fighting, Games, Long, Spend

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

Character, Trying, Actors, Playing, Hold

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.

Deathly, Hallows, Hero, Kids, Nicer, Potters

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.

Actor, Drama, Found, Girl, Girls, Passion

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

Absurd, Kid, Kids, World

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.

Boss, Crime, Criminals, Movies, Reason, World

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.

Thinking, People, Interesting, Right, Extremely

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.

Hate, Thinking, Ideas, Positive, Thing

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

Bases, Basis, Daily, Think, Thinking, Truth Is

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. '

Father, Football, Hug, Know, Play

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.

Arbitrary, Bollocks, Dismantle, Leader, Military, Sign

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

Cinema, Perfection, Think, Thinking

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

Actors, Delinquents, Frustrated, Nine, Ten

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

America, Looks, May, Wealth, Look, Point

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.

Anymore, Breakdown, Cameraman, Directors, Real, Trainspotting

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

Actors, Directors, Fallacy, Kind, Particularly

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

Enjoy, Film, Films, Made, Mavericks

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