It's much more fun to be ugly.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

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.