Top 66 Quotes by Robert Carlyle

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.

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.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

The darker the character, the more interesting.

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

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

Hunger's a great spur.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.