I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

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!

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

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.

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

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