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Robert Carlyle [1961-0] Scottish

Rank: 102
Director, Actor

Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish actor. His film work includes Trainspotting, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, and Angela's Ashes. He has been in the television shows Hamish Macbeth, Stargate Universe, and Once Upon a Time. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Full Monty and a Gemini Award for Stargate Universe.

Attitude, Imagination

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I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.		101
I rant and rave about noise pollution.		102
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.		103
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.		104
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.	Imagination	105
I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!		106
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.		107
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.		108
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!'		109
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.		110
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.		111
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.		112
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.		113
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.		114
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.		115
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.		116
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.		117
I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.		118
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'		119
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.		120
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?		121
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.		122
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.		123
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.		124
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.		125
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.		126
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.		201
The darker the character, the more interesting.		202
Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.		203
It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.		204
I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.		205
I hate the word 'hippy.'		206
Hunger's a great spur.		207
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.		208
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.		209
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.	Attitude	210
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.		211
Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.		212
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.		213
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.		214
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.		215
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.		216
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.		217
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.		218
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.		219
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.		220
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.		221
I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.		222
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.		223
When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.		224
The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.		225
I owe my father everything.		226
If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.		301
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.		302
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.		303
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.		304
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.		305
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.		306
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.		307
Acting is a really insular thing.		308
I'd love to play some kind of fop.		309
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.		310
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.		311
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.		312
I never go anywhere without my iPod.		313
I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.		314

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