Robert Carlyle
Director
1961-04-14
Books by Robert Carlyle
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De Vaux, or, the Heir of Gilsland, a Poem
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Quotes by Robert Carlyle
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Hunger's a great spur.
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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.
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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
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Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
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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.
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I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
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Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.
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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'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
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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.
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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.
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