Top 66 Quotes by Robert Carlyle

Acting is a really insular thing.

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

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

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.

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

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

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

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

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