Robbie Coltrane Quotes
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.
Coltrane, Robbie. Interview. The Daily Record, Reach plc, 25 Oct. 2001.
Many critics of the neoconservatives like Perle observed that if we were negotiating with friends and allies and they made demands or exacted a high price for what we wanted, this was viewed as diplomacy and give and take was appropriate. But when states which were not friends and whose government we did not approve of, made demands or exacted a high price for what we wanted, this was viewed as “blackmail” and should never be acceded to. Negotiations with those states those became extremely difficult if neoconservatives were controlling or influencing the negotiating tactics and strategy.
Referring to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet:
In the midst of World War II, FDR asked Wendell Wilkie, his former Presidential opponent, to make a fact finding, good-will tour to The Middle East and the Soviet Union. One plane stop on the tour was in Mongolia where the local communist leader had been instructed by Stalin to care for Willkie’s safety. The quotation is very important becasue it illustrated Stalin's method of control and administration: Liquidate (murder) those whose attitude or performance was not to his satisfaction. Unfortunately, even though Willkie wrote of this incident, no one in America--especially not the Media--picked up on this. This was about 20 years before the world learned of Stalin's "liquidations". In the inerim many idealists in America and the rest of the world, became or flirted with Communists as they knew the good and the worst of the bad had not been public knowledge.
He controlled a Shiite political party with its own armed militia.
Bhutto, after Pakistan’s defeat by India, initiated a massive nuclear bomb development program which was contrary to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation policy of the United States. Bhutto went ahead anyway and soon Pakistan had a nuclear capability, much to the distress of the other nuclear powers in the world.
The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.
Anthony Robert McMillan OBE, known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, is a Scottish actor and writer. His best known film roles are Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011), and as Valentin Dmitrovich Zhukovsky in the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). His other works include From Hell (2001), Stormbreaker (2006), Brave (2012), and Great Expectations (2012).
