3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle People go to the movies to watch a film and all they’re thinking about is the actress’s cellulite they saw in a magazine.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle I’ve always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle I don’t take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn’t always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It’s your experience and your observation.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he’s pretty good at paying the rent.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It’s such a gamble.
