All Robert Carlyle Quotes
- I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. Directors
- 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… Attitude
- In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. Film
- My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent. All
- 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… Artist
- Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that. Child
- 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… Accents
- 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… Anyone
- 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… Believe
- 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… Acting
- The darker the character, the more interesting. Character
- For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close… Able
- The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football. Football
- It's much more fun to be ugly. Fun
- 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… Audience
- I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. Ability
- At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together. Binds
- 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, and… Accept
- The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. Actor
- 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… Actor
- A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big… Actor
- 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 it… Belongs
- Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why… Go
- I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand… Actor
- 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… Allegedly