Robert Carlyle

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

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.

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.

I've 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.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.

I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.