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My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

I was born a character actor.

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

I consider myself a character actor.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

I've always considered myself a character actor.