Robert Carlyle

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

— Robert Carlyle

Hunger's a great spur.

— Robert Carlyle

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

— Robert Carlyle

Love is the mother of Pain

— Robert Carlyle

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

— Robert Carlyle

I owe my father everything.

— Robert Carlyle

It's much more fun to be ugly.

— Robert Carlyle

Acting is a really insular thing.

— Robert Carlyle

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.

— Robert Carlyle

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

— Robert Carlyle

The darker the character, the more interesting.

— Robert Carlyle

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

— Robert Carlyle

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

— Robert Carlyle

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

— Robert Carlyle

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

— Robert Carlyle

I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.

— Robert Carlyle

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

— Robert Carlyle

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

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

— Robert Carlyle

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found…

— Robert Carlyle

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

— Robert Carlyle

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

— Robert Carlyle

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so…

— Robert Carlyle

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

— Robert Carlyle

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood.…

— Robert Carlyle

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

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father.…

— Robert Carlyle

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling…

— Robert Carlyle

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world…

— Robert Carlyle

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try…

— Robert Carlyle

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

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors…

— Robert Carlyle

I never go anywhere without my iPod.

— Robert Carlyle

I'd love to play some kind of fop.

— Robert Carlyle

I hate the word 'hippy.'

— Robert Carlyle

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

— Robert Carlyle

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

— Robert Carlyle

I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

— Robert Carlyle

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

— Robert Carlyle