Acting is a really insular thing.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

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.

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

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

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