I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood.… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor,… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
