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.

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.

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.