The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

My first language is Gaelic.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!

Thought is impossible without words.

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.