I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.