106 Quotes by Robert Carlyle

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

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.

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.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It’s right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

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.

Anyone that knows me knows what I’m about, and I’m very much a British actor, a European actor.

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!'