Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.