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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Acting is a really insular thing. "

" 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. "

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

" I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The darker the character, the more interesting. "

" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

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