I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
Ewan McGregor
I especially love my Moto Guzzi.
I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.
Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.
I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
I've never found acting that difficult.
I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.
I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.
I've never been one who agonizes over my work.
No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.
I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
Conservative's the last thing I am.
I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.
Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.
I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.
I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.
I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
