Robert Carlyle Quotes

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do the work anymore. Then, there's something that you're going to miss. If you always stay hungry to learn more about your character, that's a healthy thing, while having a great sense of who she is, at the core.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I dig those kinds of roles where I have to dig down and find some internal motivation. I like tough roles.

I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.

I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'

I just wanted to do something positive. I feel like music was the talent that I had, I just had to tap into it.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to dig deep and find out what you're made of. All of those things have been incredibly fun to play.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.