Robert Carlyle Quotes

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• Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

  Robert Carlyle

  Art, Acting, Magnet

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

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• It's much more fun to be ugly.

  Robert Carlyle

  Fun, Ugly

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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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  Trying, Actors, Always Believe

  "28 Weeks Later - Robert Carlyle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

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  Depression, People, Together

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• I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

  Robert Carlyle

  Girl, Geek

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

  Robert Carlyle

  Thinking, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is a really insular thing.

  Robert Carlyle

  Acting

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

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• Hunger's a great spur.

  Robert Carlyle

  Spurs, Hunger

  "To be and to pretend". Interview with Alastair McKay, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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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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  Jobs, Thinking, Six Months

  "28 Weeks Later - Robert Carlyle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

  Robert Carlyle

  Thinking, Stories, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

  Robert Carlyle

  Bullying, Terrible, Terrible Things

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

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• I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

  Robert Carlyle

  Balls, Television, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

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  Art, First Love, Love Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

  Robert Carlyle

  Who I Am, Ducks, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

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  Past, Looks, Way

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

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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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  Change, Character, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

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  Intelligent, Imagination, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The darker the character, the more interesting.

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Robert Carlyle

  Makeup, Fans, Murder

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Robert Carlyle

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  "Robert Carlyle and Antonia Bird interview (I)". Interview with Mark Cousins, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 1999.

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• I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

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  Actors, Reputation, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Patriotic, Roots, Guy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

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  Men, Planets, Feels

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• I never go anywhere without my iPod.

  Robert Carlyle

  Ipods

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Character, Discovery, Self

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