Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
It's much more fun to be ugly.
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.
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.
I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
Acting is a really insular thing.
Hunger's a great spur.
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 seem to fly by the seat of my pants.
I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
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.
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
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.
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
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 well, and change in my work is what I want.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
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.
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 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.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.
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.
