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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I hate the word 'hippy.' "

" The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

" I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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!' "

" 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. "