"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
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"Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.“
-Robert Carlyle
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"I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world."
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"I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more."
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"People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine."
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"In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble."
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"Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting."
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