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The truth is never pretty.
Be the hero of your own life story.
I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.
Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.
I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.
I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.
I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.
9/11 was basically caused by box cutters, and that changed the world.
I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.
I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.
The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.
Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.
I have literally run into 20 people all around the world with my face tattooed on them.
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.
In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.
The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.
In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.
I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before.
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'
I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.
You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.
I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.
I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.
When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.
My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.
Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.
[How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I'd be screaming at her, 'Do it. Just do it!'.
Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.
My Range Rover is great for LA. You can take surfboards on it and stick some bikes in the back. And if you kidnap people you could tie them up in the back, there's space for your chloroform.
I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.
Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.