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

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

It's much more fun to be ugly..

I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me..

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'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 we….

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!.

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..

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 o….

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 beli….

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

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

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

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 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 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 longe….

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain..

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

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..

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to mak….

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