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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never go anywhere without my iPod. "

" 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. "

" The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television. "

" I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Hunger's a great spur. "

" 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. "

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

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