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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 rant and rave about noise pollution. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hunger's a great spur. "