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

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" I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. "

" 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 never go anywhere without my iPod. "

" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "

" I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. "

" The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' "

" Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. "

" It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this. "

" I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me. "

" I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing. "

" We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me. "

" There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation. "

" 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. "

" To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone. "

" My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent. "

" Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it. "

" Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots. "

" The darker the character, the more interesting. "

" I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. "

" Acting is a really insular thing. "

" I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. "

" 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. "

" The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said. "

" I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that. "

" It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I owe my father everything. "

" When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. "