My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves.

Villains are often attractive.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

No one will die if they don't know how old I am.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

Love must become the essence of our being

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Morality is a human creation. The Universe does not judge.

Why, so you can charm my panties off again?

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.