16 Quotes by Jamie Sives

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America’s greatest screen actor.

The Danes don’t take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.

I’m not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking – or rather, lying – I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it’s been the right one for me.

I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn’t folded, I’d probably still be scaffolding and loving it.