Rumplestiltskin: I like to watch the wheel. Helps me forget.
Belle: Forget what?
Rumplestiltskin: [after a little reflection] I guess it worked.
Rumplestiltskin - 1.12
They are completely infatuated with each other and always have been,” Emilie de Ravin said. “It’s just [about] getting over these obstacles of being such different people coming from such different places and living such different lives.
Emilie de Ravin -
Yeah, murder seems so much worse here, though, doesn't it? You can't just turn someone into a snail and then step on them, can you?
Mr. Gold - 1.19
Question: Among the women of the Mills’ family, which one did you prefer to kiss?
Robert Carlye: Emilie. Has to be. Because you know, that was the realest of all... You try, you know... You try to make everything real. The stuff I had to do with Bex was...weird. And the stuff I had with Lana was even more weirder. So Emilie, definitely.
Robert Carlyle - The Happy Ending Con 2017
Never underestimate the power of a guilty conscience.
Mr. Gold - 2.21
The theme of…this episode actually changed in the writing of it, which is very unusual on the show, ‘cause normally the guys know exactly what the episode’s about, and you go in knowing it and it never changes, but this one started out being about 'Rumple chooses power over love’ and then I sort of realized during the writing of it, as I was going through drafts, and talking with the guys about it that that’s what Rumple wants to think he’s doing, but really it’s about that he doesn’t think he’s lovable or worthy of love. It just kept getting deeper and deeper as we worked with it.
Jane Espenson - DVD Skin Deep commentary
Magic is about emotion. Summon up that moment, that made you so angry, you would've killed if you could.
Rumplestiltskin - 2.16
Everything is contained within Skin Deep. I love the scene in the cell with Regina when she comes in to talk. I really genuinely can’t pick a Rumpelstiltskin scene from Skin Deep because, in my opinion, that’s 42 minutes of TV that’s as good as it gets. I think it’s among the best things I’ve been involved in.
Robert Carlyle - xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2012/03/23/once-upon-a-time-cast-reveals-their-favorite-scenes/
She will, or I promise you, there will be suffering.
Mr. Gold - 2.19
Estelle McGecky: And Mr. Gold helps Henry without a price to pay, it's really quite a touching moment, Robert Carlyle just plays that to a T the whole scene.
Eddy Kitsis: Yes, Bobby is fantastic, you know, in that moment I think he's stared down at a boy who's about the same age Baelfire was when he let him go, and he sees a child hurting. And I think that as duplicitous as he can be, and as evil as he can be, we've also seen how much kindness and capacity for love he has, when given the right circumstances.
OUAT Child of the Moon Podcast
Evil isn't born, dearie, it's made.
Rumplestiltskin - 1.16
Belle is certainly the counterpoint to Gold. There’s no doubt about that. If there’s any possibility at all of Rumple or Gold changing, it’ll come through this character. She brings out the better side of him, and she’s the only one that can do that. She is his strength, in fact.
Robert Carlyle - S2 DVD Girl Powe Feature
Always nice to make an impression... Where are my manners? We haven't been properly introduced. Rumplestiltskin - or as others know me, the Dark One
Rumplestiltskin - 2.04
I think, possibly, in terms of - maybe entire episode, was the episode which was called Skin Deep… when he first meets Belle. That was a great episode to film, and it was the beginning of a fantastic friendship, relationship, you know for- in real life as well, for myself and Emilie. Great friends. Will be forever, because of that. That’s gonna be my outstanding memory on Once Upon a Time.
Robert Carlyle about his best memory on Once Upon A Time - The Happy Ending Con 2017
Source: facebook.com
The two moms are trying to stop Henry from destroying magic and trying to stop Gold, who is the ultimate darkest of the dark ones, from getting to Henry
Lana Parrilla - www.tvinsider.com/88441/once-upon-a-time-season-5-finale-lana-parrilla-previews-reginas-return-to-the-dark-side
Why do you think after all those centuries [Rumple] made the deal specifically for Belle?
Robert Carlyle: I think that’s a really good question, actually. I’ve often thought that myself. Wondered why he chose Belle. Because he did choose her. It be nice to go back even further. Because I was always sure that he'd spotted her somewhere before and thought 'I'm gonna go and have - I'll - I shall have her.' At some point.
Robert Carlyle - The Happy Ending Con 2017
Jefferson may not be a killer, but he knows Gold is. And so he knows this secret, once Gold realises that Belle was let out, and that Regina lied to him about her being dead, and that she has kept Belle locked up for all this time, he will do what needs to be done.
Eddy Kitsis - Once Upon A Time Podcast