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

Villains are often attractive.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

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.

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

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.

You're what I've been looking for my whole life, and if you let me, I'll love you for the rest of yours.

Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot.

When I see what I want, I do it.

I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.

He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'