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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. "

" 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. "

" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

" 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. "

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

" The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life. "

" I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. "

" Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four. "

" Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. "

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

" Acting is a really insular thing. "

" 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. "

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

" I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it. "

" 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. "