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I owe my father everything.

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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Everything

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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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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 think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
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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'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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Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.
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I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
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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 do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
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I never go anywhere without my iPod.
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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 loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
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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 never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
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The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
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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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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 just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
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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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A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
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