We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
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. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world – there’s probably only two actors among them. Hollywood’s not about you as an actor. It’s about your currency, what you ‘bring to the table’. And I’ve never been one to jump through hoops for anyone. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
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. Robert Carlyle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
