If there’s anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they’re gone. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can’t balk at work like that. As an actor, that’s as good as it gets. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery’s a good thing. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They’ve had to invent a new term for it: ‘high-end television.’ Robert Carlyle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To be honest I don’t think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size – intimate. Robert Carlyle Read Quote