After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

Take something away, and your habits become clear.

True poverty does not come from God.

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was.