Iain Glen

“A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.”

“I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.”

“As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.”

“I'm too much of a big kid.”

“My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.”

“I don't crave Hollywood.”

“You really are being quite foolish to smoke.”

“A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.”

“I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.”

“I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.”

“You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.”

“I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.”

“With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.”