When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"