If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.