Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing..

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 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've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always see….

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….

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….

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be..

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

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….

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with chil….

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 nig….

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

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

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..

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

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

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

I rant and rave about noise pollution..

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together..

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it..