After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

I don't know anything about baseball.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

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

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