I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game."