I always know I can die at any moment.
I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.
I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.
Some people can handle fame, some can't.
The script for 'Trainspotting' was amazing, and it was different from the book.
It takes a lot to shock me.
I love running.
I think so many men have this really sharp feeling of being a disappointment in their mid-forties. There's probably something chemical about it - the drop of testosterone, the fact that you don't feel the same way physically. It's a real thing. You do tend to feel like a disappointment.
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.
I'm not really the cool dude at all.
As far as 'Trainspotting' changing my life, I think I've said before I probably squandered a few opportunities. But I'm fine with that because everything's fine.
I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!
I believe in Danny Boyle. I really do. I know that he's not going to pull the trigger on something if it's not right.
I try to avoid talking about my personal life, but I certainly don't get angry about it - I just don't talk about it.
I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.
It sounds so incredibly selfish, but you just can't earn the same money doing theater as you can doing television and film. I know that's awful, but you get a mortgage and a family, and suddenly, paying that seems quite important.
It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?
There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.
