To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

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

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

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two

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.

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.