I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I'm a terrible dancer.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.

You are the only one who could delay your happiness, because a peaceful state of mind is impossible without unconditional self-love.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

Work ... is redemption.

Fold and live to fold again.