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“It's much more fun to be ugly.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Fun #Ugly
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Acting #Band #Moments
“So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Years #Old Friends #Way
“Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Long
“When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Past #Looks #Way
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Decision #Say Anything #Directors
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Children #Dad #Father
“Acting is a really insular thing.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Acting
“People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Scotland #People #Appreciate
“My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Art #First Love #Love Is
“I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Thinking #Comedy #Kind
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Who I Am #Ducks #Balance
“Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Children #Cities #Doubt
“The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Football #Scotland #Missing
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Change #Character #Years
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Character #Discovery #Self
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Makeup #Fans #Murder
“The darker the character, the more interesting.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Character #Interesting
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Home #Night #Space
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Believe #Eye #Opposites
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Long #Want #Actors
“At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Depression #People #Together
“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.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Balls #Television #Scripts
“I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Thinking #Stories #Should
“I owe my father everything.”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Father
“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!”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Character #Scripts #Scottish
“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

#Actors #Reputation
“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?”
-- Robert Carlyle

#Guy #Want #West
“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

#Character #Trying #Looks
“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

#Character #Play #Childhood

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