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
years old-friends way
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.
years canada easy
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
change character years
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.
years light childhood
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
bring coffee holding means move moves respecting showing tape tells
The way a person moves tells you a lot about them. Look at the way I'm holding this coffee mug. If I were to thump it down on the table, I wouldn't be respecting your tape recorder. If I move it gently, it means I am showing some respect. These are the things I bring to my performances.
movies people saw watch
People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.
absolutely career coming experience few forward honest looking seem thinking worked
To be honest I've worked with a few American actors now and I was looking forward to that you know, coming up in my career thinking ""Yeah I'd like to work with some Americans because they seem to be very, very comfortable with improvisation. But that has not been my experience at all. They have to have things absolutely set.
great honest shakes size
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
danny work
I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.
love
I'd love to play some kind of fop.
depends ken scottish-director
It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
experience mind pulling technical
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
breakdown father left life nervous obviously suffered three time traumatic
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
love various worth
Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.