You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

The work has to have room to breathe.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.

Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

You don't ask, you don't get.

When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

If I can learn how to manage myself, why would I give you 20 percent and people are looking for me? It just doesn't make sense.

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.