I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.