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" I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet. "
Robert Carlyle
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" Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. "
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" If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone. "
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" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "
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" I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that? "
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Want
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Why
" I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing. "
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" I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. "
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Time
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Growing
" 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. "
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Heart
Mind
Performance
" I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. "
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Week
Me
Television
" I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me. "
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Moving
Worst
You
" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "
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First Love
Art
See
" Acting is a really insular thing. "
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" 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. "
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Now
Gone
You
" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "
Robert Carlyle
Bullying
Terrible
Terrible Thing
" I'd love to play some kind of fop. "
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Love
Kind
Some
" 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. "
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Trying
Bathroom
Artist
" 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 never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time. "
Robert Carlyle
Time
Waste
Waste Of Time
" I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. "
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Great
More
Me
" I hate the word 'hippy.' "
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Word
Hate
Hippy
" I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote. "
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Wasting
Who
Vote
" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "
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Rave
Noise
Rant
" 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. "
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Work
True
Reputation
" People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain. "
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Talent
Scotland
People
" It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this. "
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Long
Time
Professional
" 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. "
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Minutes
Off
Acting
" 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. "
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" I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it. "
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Only
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