Robert Carlyle Thinking Quotations

To be honest I've worked with a few American actors now and I was looking forward to that you know, coming up in my career thinking ""Yeah I'd like to work with some Americans because they seem to be very, very comfortable with improvisation. But that has not been my experience at all. They have to have things absolutely set.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

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

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.