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" 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. "

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" I owe my father everything. "

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

" 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. "

" I never go anywhere without my iPod. "

" The darker the character, the more interesting. "

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

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

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

" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Hunger's a great spur. "

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

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

" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "