Top 66 Quotes by 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.

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.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

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

I owe my father everything.