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I hate the word 'hippy.'

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Robert Carlyle
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
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The darker the character, the more interesting.
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In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
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I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
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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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People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
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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.
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I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
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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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At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.
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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'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
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I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
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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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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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A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
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It's much more fun to be ugly.
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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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I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
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The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
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