Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.

I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

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