If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.

I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.