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To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
— Robert Carlyle
People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.
— Robert Carlyle
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
— Robert Carlyle
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
— Robert Carlyle
I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.
— Robert Carlyle
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
— Robert Carlyle
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
— Robert Carlyle
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
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I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
— Robert Carlyle
I rant and rave about noise pollution.
— Robert Carlyle
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
— Robert Carlyle
I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
— Robert Carlyle
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.
— Robert Carlyle
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
— Robert Carlyle
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
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I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
— Robert Carlyle
It's much more fun to be ugly.
— Robert Carlyle
I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.
— Robert Carlyle
The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
— Robert Carlyle
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
— Robert Carlyle
I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
— Robert Carlyle
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
— Robert Carlyle
I owe my father everything.
— Robert Carlyle
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
— Robert Carlyle
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
— Robert Carlyle
The darker the character, the more interesting.
— Robert Carlyle
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
— Robert Carlyle
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
— Robert Carlyle
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
— Robert Carlyle
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
— Robert Carlyle
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
— Robert Carlyle
I hate the word 'hippy.'
— Robert Carlyle
I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
— Robert Carlyle
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
— Robert Carlyle
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
— Robert Carlyle
I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!
— Robert Carlyle
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
— Robert Carlyle
I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
— Robert Carlyle
I'd love to play some kind of fop.
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I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
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Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.
— Robert Carlyle
It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
— Robert Carlyle
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
— Robert Carlyle
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
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If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.
— Robert Carlyle
I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!'
— Robert Carlyle
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
— Robert Carlyle
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
— Robert Carlyle
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
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I never go anywhere without my iPod.
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Acting is a really insular thing.
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I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
— Robert Carlyle