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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.
Robert Carlyle
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Robert Carlyle
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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The darker the character, the more interesting.
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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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I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
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I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
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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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People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
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It's much more fun to be ugly.
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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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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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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
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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 never go anywhere without my iPod.
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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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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
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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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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 owe my father everything.
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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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I hate the word 'hippy.'
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