Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.
There is a universality to comedy.
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
I feel incredibly passionate about Scotland not becoming an independent country.
O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.