The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.

I don't know anything about baseball.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

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.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

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