Robert Carlyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?”

“I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.”

“The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.”

“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.”

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

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

“I hate the word 'hippy.'”

“I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.”

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

“Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.”