I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.