The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

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.

Religion isn't the problem ignorance and hatred are.

There is madness in the every heart.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.