Robbie Coltraine
Robbie Coltraine
Robbie Coltrane, OBEis a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known for his roles as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough, and as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the British TV series Cracker during the 1990s...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth30 March 1950
respect noise rooms
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
beatles clear guy possibly quite turned within
He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.
gets huge
If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
dad kids parenting
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
children believe parenting
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
eye people nightmare
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
beautiful beautiful-women world
Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?
past car done
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
thinking expression years
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
children appreciate approval
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
dad teenager past
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
beautiful worry sometimes
I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made,
kids two benign
I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.
stupid thinking owl
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.