I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

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."

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

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

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.