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Peter Mullan Quotes

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.

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.

Tags: death, life, walk, people

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Peter Mullan

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Tags: dad

About Author
Peter Mullan (; 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), The Claim (2000), and all three series of the BBC comedy series Mum, in which he starred as Michael.
He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International Film Festival for his direction of The Magdalene Sisters in 2002.

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

Peter Mullan

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

Tags: imagination, you, instinct, where

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...

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...

Tags: movies

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

Peter Mullan

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

Tags: politics, science

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...

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...

Tags: positive

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.'

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.'

Tags: smile, age, father, football

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 re...

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 re...

Tags: society