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I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

Robert Carlyle

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Robert Carlyle
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Detective
Detectives
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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 do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
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The darker the character, the more interesting.
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For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.
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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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It's much more fun to be ugly.
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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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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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My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
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I never go anywhere without my iPod.
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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 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.
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I hate the word 'hippy.'
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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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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 think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
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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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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
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I owe my father everything.
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