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've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

I hate the word 'hippy.'

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.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

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