106 Quotes by Robert Carlyle

Acting is a really insular thing.

I hate the word 'hippy.'

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

I feel like I’m the luckiest man on the planet.

It’s much more fun to be ugly.

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.

I’ve always believed that as an actor anything you’re asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.