Robert Carlyle Quotes

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Robert Carlyle

Profession : Director

Birth : April 14, 1961

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

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 to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

Robert Carlyle

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

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 the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.

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

When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.

Robert Carlyle

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

Robert Carlyle

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

Robert Carlyle

I owe my father everything.

Robert Carlyle

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Carlyle

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

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 the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

Robert Carlyle

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.

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

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

Robert Carlyle