Scottish - Director | April 14, 1961 -
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 subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.
Robert Carlyle
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I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
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I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
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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 doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.
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To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
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In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
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The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
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To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.
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Acting is a really insular thing.
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Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
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I'd love to play some kind of fop.
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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 dad went through.
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