Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.

Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

Immediate gratification is a dream killer.

One must observe the proper rites.

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

still loved but deprived of grace

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

To dream costs nothing.