I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

The attitude of wanting to win-doing everything in your power except cheating to win.