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

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!

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

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.

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.

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