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.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

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.