I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.