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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. "

Robert Carlyle

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "

" I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that. "

Robert Carlyle

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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. "

Robert Carlyle

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" Hunger's a great spur. "

" I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. "

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

" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

" The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. "

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

Robert Carlyle

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Just

" It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. "

" In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. "

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

Robert Carlyle

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!' "

Robert Carlyle

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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. "

" The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' "

" I never go anywhere without my iPod. "

Robert Carlyle

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

" I'd love to play some kind of fop. "

" I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots. "

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

" 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 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

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