For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.