A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

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

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

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.

I owe my father everything.

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.

Hunger's a great spur.

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 don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.