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

" 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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" A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 never go anywhere without my iPod. "

Robert Carlyle

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Anywhere

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 darker the character, the more interesting. "

Robert Carlyle

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" I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me. "

" Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. "

Robert Carlyle

Dark

Lucky

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

" The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football. "

" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

" 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. "

" Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that. "

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

Robert Carlyle

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