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My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Tags: art

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.

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.

Tags: attitude, late, you, gone

About Author
Robert Carlyle (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish actor. His film work includes Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), Angela's Ashes (1999), The Beach (2000), 28 Weeks Later (2007), and Yesterday (2019). He has been in the television shows Hamish Macbeth, Stargate Universe, Once Upon a Time and COBRA. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Full Monty and a Gemini Award for Stargate Universe, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in Human Trafficking (2005).

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

Robert Carlyle

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

Tags: dad

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.

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.

Tags: dad, home

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...

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...

Tags: experience

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 spa...

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 spa...

Tags: home

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

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.

Tags: imagination, love, world, intelligent

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

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.

Tags: money

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.

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.

Tags: movies

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

Robert Carlyle

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

Tags: politics

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Robert Carlyle

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Tags: society