Robert Carlyle Quotes

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Robert Carlyle

Profession : Director

Birth : April 14, 1961

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

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

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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

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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?

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I never go anywhere without my iPod.

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

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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.

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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 trying them out.

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

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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

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I rant and rave about noise pollution.

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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 versa, but that's gone now.

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We met in Cracker. 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 genuinely liked me.

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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.

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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 different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.

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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 Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

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

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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 to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

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The darker the character, the more interesting.

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