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.

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.

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

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.

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

Life begin at the end of your Comfort Zone. So if you're feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a begining, not an ending

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.