Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle, OBEis a Scottish actor. His film work includes Trainspotting, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, and Angela's Ashes. He has been in the television shows Hamish Macbeth, Stargate Universe, and Once Upon a Time. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Full Monty and a Gemini Award for Stargate Universe...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth14 April 1961
CityMaryhill, Scotland
bullying terrible terrible-things
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
attitude tvs vices
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
lasts sticks want
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
actors reputation strands
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.
character trying looks
Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.
character play childhood
A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.
thinking two numbers
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.
scotland people appreciate
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
artist wife trying
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
children cities doubt
Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.
balls television scripts
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.
art first-love love-is
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
fun ugly
It's much more fun to be ugly.
children levels reason
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.