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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. "

Robert Carlyle

Mother

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Project

Find

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Interesting

Character

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Without

Anywhere

" 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. "

Robert Carlyle

Balance

Life

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

" People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain. "

" 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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Robert Carlyle

Dark

Lucky

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

" I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. "

" I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing. "

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Thing

Just

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