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Hunger's a great spur.
I hate the word 'hippy.'
I owe my father everything.
It's much more fun to be ugly.
Acting is a really insular thing.
I never go anywhere without my iPod.
I rant and rave about noise pollution.
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!
I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
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.
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.