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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.
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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.
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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.
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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
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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.
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The darker the character, the more interesting.
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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.
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It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
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I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
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I hate the word 'hippy.'
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Hunger's a great spur.
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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.
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I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
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I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!
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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.
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People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
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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.
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Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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