106 Quotes by Robert Carlyle

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.

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 loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

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

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

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

When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.

I'd love to play some kind of fop.

I feel with TV you're allowed more freedom. With television there's more time to create something through the episodes. The fact that you're working harder on the surface seems more difficult, but you get into a way of working where if you're not allowed to stop and breathe and think about it, you just go on instinctively, which is the way I prefer anyway. It becomes a more spontaneous thing.