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

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

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

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

" I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet. "

" Hunger's a great spur. "

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

" Acting is a really insular thing. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 totally be attracted to a geek girl! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "