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" 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. "

Robert Carlyle

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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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" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

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

" 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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" Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. "

" 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. "

" My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent. "

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Financial

Rent

" 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. "

" 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

Television

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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. "

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

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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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