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We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
The darker the character, the more interesting.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.
Written by
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.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I hate the word 'hippy.'
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Hunger's a great spur.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
Written by
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.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!
Written by
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.
Written by
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.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
Written by
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.
Written by
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!'
Written by
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.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
Written by
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.
Written by
Robert Carlyle
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