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Robert Carlyle
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Darker
Interesting
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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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The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
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I never go anywhere without my iPod.
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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 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 do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
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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 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'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
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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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I hate the word 'hippy.'
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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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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 think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
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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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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'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 loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
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I owe my father everything.
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