Robert Carlyle Quotes - Page 2

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 would you want to do that?

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

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.

I hate the word 'hippy.'

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

I never go anywhere without my iPod.

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

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 fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

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

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

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!

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

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

I owe my father everything.

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.

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 aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

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.

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 that, actually, I make a living out of this.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

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.