I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.

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.

On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.