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Robert Carlyle
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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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.
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I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
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I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
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I owe my father everything.
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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
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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.
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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've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.
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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.
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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 thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
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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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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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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.
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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
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A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
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I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
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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.
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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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