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
among hollywood hoops pursue top
To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.
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.
bullying terrible terrible-things
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
projects budgets
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
ipods
I never go anywhere without my iPod.
When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.
I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
invent nowadays term tv
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
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.
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.
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.
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.