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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. "

Robert Carlyle

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" I never go anywhere without my iPod. "

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" I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time. "

" I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. "

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" 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. "

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" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. "

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" I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it. "

" 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. "

" Hunger's a great spur. "

" When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

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" I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. "

" 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. "

" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "

" 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. "