Robert Carlyle Quotes
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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.
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.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
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.
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.
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
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.
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
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.
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
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.
It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
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.
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.
If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.
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!'
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.