Quote

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

Robert Carlyle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Carlyle
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Talent
Getting
Film
Made
Scotland
People
Britain
Appreciate
Films
Harder

More quotes by Robert Carlyle

Image
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
Robert Carlyle
Image
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
Image
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
Robert Carlyle
Image
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
Robert Carlyle
Image
I hate the word 'hippy.'
Robert Carlyle
Image
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.
Robert Carlyle
Image
The darker the character, the more interesting.
Robert Carlyle
Image
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
Robert Carlyle
Image
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
Robert Carlyle
Image
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.
Robert Carlyle
Image
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
Robert Carlyle
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
Robert Carlyle
Image
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
Robert Carlyle
Image
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
Image
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
Robert Carlyle
Image
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
Image
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.
Robert Carlyle
Image
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
Robert Carlyle