Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Be the hero of your own life story.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.