Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

Acting is a really insular thing.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.