Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Robert Carlyle
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
Robert Carlyle

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

I owe my father everything.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

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
Robert Carlyle

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

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
Robert Carlyle

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

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

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
Robert Carlyle

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
Robert Carlyle

I hate the word 'hippy.'

Robert Carlyle
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
Robert Carlyle

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.

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

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
Robert Carlyle

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

Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle

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.