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" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "
Robert Carlyle
Bullying
Terrible
Terrible Thing
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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. "
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" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "
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First Love
Art
See
" 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. "
Robert Carlyle
Heart
Mind
Performance
" I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it. "
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Only
Behind
Think
" The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. "
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Mystery
Good
Know
" 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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Anything
Who
Roots
" Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. "
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About
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" 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. "
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People
Movies
Thinking
" 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. "
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Great
Theatre
Think
" The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television. "
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Countries
Really
Different
" 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. "
Robert Carlyle
Now
Gone
You
" The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football. "
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Most
Scotland
About
" I hate the word 'hippy.' "
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Word
Hate
Hippy
" The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' "
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Getting Better
Quality
Better
" I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl! "
Robert Carlyle
Girl
Geek
Attracted
" I'd love to play some kind of fop. "
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Love
Kind
Some
" I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that. "
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Doing
He
Day
" I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang. "
Robert Carlyle
Minutes
Off
Acting
" My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent. "
Robert Carlyle
He
Financial
Rent
" If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone. "
Robert Carlyle
You
Because
Want
" I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!' "
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Up
End
Me
" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "
Robert Carlyle
Because
Reason
Children
" I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. "
Robert Carlyle
Say
Comedy
I Can
" I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. "
Robert Carlyle
Father
Children
Child
" When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. "
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Way
Now
Look
" I owe my father everything. "
Robert Carlyle
Father
Owe
Everything
" 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. "
Robert Carlyle
Mother
Time
Me
" The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said. "
Robert Carlyle
Interesting
Eyes
Believe
" We met in Cracker. 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. "
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Me
Makeup
Looking
" Acting is a really insular thing. "
Robert Carlyle
Insular
Really
Acting