I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

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

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

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

The darker the character, the more interesting.

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.