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
who-i-am ducks balance
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.
spurs hunger
Hunger's a great spur.
party social interest
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
dad rubbish financial
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
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.
children levels reason
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
fun ugly
It's much more fun to be ugly.
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.
television directors problem
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
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.
bullying terrible terrible-things
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
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.
actors british know-me
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.