Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you dont have to take it home with you at night. Its the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. – Robert Carlyle
Ive always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. – Robert Carlyle
In the late 70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didnt do TV and vice versa, but thats gone now. – Robert Carlyle
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. Its such a gamble. – Robert Carlyle
Every man should have a library. The works of the grandest masters of literature may now be procured at prices that place them within the reach almost of the very poorest, and we may all put Parnassian singing birds into our chambers to cheer us with the sweetness of their songs. – William E.A. Axon, October 1867