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" 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
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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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" 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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" I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. "
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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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" 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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" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "
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" I owe my father everything. "
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" Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. "
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" Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. "
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" 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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" I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl! "
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Geek
Attracted
" I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. "
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" 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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Who
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" I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. "
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" I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote. "
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Who
Vote
" Acting is a really insular thing. "
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Insular
Really
Acting
" 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. "
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Interesting
Eyes
Believe
" 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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Performance
" I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. "
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More
Me
" I'd love to play some kind of fop. "
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Love
Kind
Some
" I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. "
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Time
Loved
Growing
" 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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Play
Love
" The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. "
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Know
" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "
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Art
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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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" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "
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" Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. "
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" Hunger's a great spur. "
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