I owe my father everything.
From Robert Carlyle
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.
I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.
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