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" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "

" I owe my father everything. "

" 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 want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. "

" If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone. "

" I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!' "

" I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. "

" Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football. "

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

" The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. "

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

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" People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain. "