Robert Carlyle Quotes
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I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
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I never go anywhere without my iPod.
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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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Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
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The darker the character, the more interesting.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
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When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
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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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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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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.
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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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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
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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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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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I hate the word 'hippy.'
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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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For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.
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My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.
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The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
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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.
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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!
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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'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
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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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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 used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
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I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
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People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
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I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!
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Acting is a really insular thing.
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