59 Quotes by Denis Lawson

My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.

My son is a lecturer at Bristol University in anthropology. His degree was in, get this, human mating strategies - sex!

When I was very small, when I was five or six, that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a song and dance man. Then I got a lot of inspiration from going to visit my grandparents in Glasgow, where I'd go to see variety. That made me want to do it as well.

In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.

Playing the villain is great fun.

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

What I've always liked as an actor is to do a lot of different kinds of things. I've done musicals, stage, TV and lots of different styles of work.

I had this idea when I left drama school that if I could do everything, I'd always be working.