Robert Carlyle Quotes

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

I think a lot of what I loved being a studio executive was the variety and freedom. But now, as a producer, you're much more able to enjoy those two things. What I loved about it doesn't necessarily exist anymore.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

It's a very different feeling to work on a show with a future.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.