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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'd totally be attracted to a geek girl! "

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

" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

" 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 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 Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that? "

" 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. "

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

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

" Hunger's a great spur. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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