The darker the character, the more interesting.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.