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" 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
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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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" 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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" 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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" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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Love
" 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. "
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" It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. "
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" A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets. "
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" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "
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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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" 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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" 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
" I'd love to play some kind of fop. "
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Love
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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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Interesting
Night
" Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. "
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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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" Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that. "
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Vancouver
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" I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. "
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Darkness
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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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" Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote. "
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Vote
" In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. "
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" 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. "
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