Peter Mullan Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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.

  Peter Mullan

  Jobs, Guy, The End Of The Day

• 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.

  Peter Mullan

  Girl, Drama, Passion

  "AGENT ORANGE: A talk with director Peter Mullan about The Magdalene Sisters!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 9, 2003.

• 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.

  Peter Mullan

  People, Appreciate, Acting

  Source: movieweb.com

• 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.

  Peter Mullan

  Fighting, Games, Long

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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