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" I never go anywhere without my iPod. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting is a really insular thing. "

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

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" 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'd love to play some kind of fop. "

" I owe my father everything. "

" Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film. "

" 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. "

" Hunger's a great spur. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 darker the character, the more interesting. "

" 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 rant and rave about noise pollution. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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