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.
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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.
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.
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.
I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
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 like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
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.
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.
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.
If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
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.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
Conservative's the last thing I am.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
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