Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts
One of the founding members of the sketch comedy troupe, Upright Citizens Brigade, who played roles in Bring It On and Anchorman. He has also appeared on Arrested Development, Players, and Key & Peele.
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 July 1965
creative determines life
Nothing determines your creative life more than doing it.
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I remember just feeling the weight and responsibility and that moment in my life was just like 'My god Ian, this is going to destroy you',
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I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else,
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I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else. I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.
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I'd just come out and I was just like ... People are going to think that somehow I'm involved and I was so terrified ... of my own persona, my own profile.
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I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.
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It was some police officers who wanted to come and speak to me about Arron,
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Let's begin looking at it now. Let's not wait until the last minute.
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The toughest adjustment is definitely the food - the same thing for every meal - rawhide and beans.
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I was told he was stabbed a number of times through the chest and then his body was wrapped in a carpet and dumped in a shallow grave and back-filled and left to rot and rot,
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They put him on for a moment and Arron was just screaming at me to get him out of there. I just said to the police officer 'this kid is not my responsibility and I don't want to hear from you guys again',
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What they went on to tell me was that Arron had been under surveillance and that he had been, prior to him moving in he had often checked at known paedophile's house, houses.
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The place he was staying at was a derelict house and there was a bunch of younger guys staying in it. I basically just packed up his stuff said to him 'come on, you can come and stay with Kirsty and I until we get you back on track',