I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.
What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room
I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.
You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.
The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.
I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.
When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.
Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.
Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.
I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.
In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.
I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.
I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!
I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.
