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1. "Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past." ~ Brian Cox
2. "You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful." ~ Brian Cox
3. "We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets." ~ Brian Cox
4. "People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything." ~ Brian Cox
5. "I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image." ~ Brian Cox
6. "I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist." ~ Brian Cox
7. "I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend." ~ Brian Cox
8. "The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World." ~ Brian Cox
9. "There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family." ~ Brian Cox
10. "Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft." ~ Brian Cox
11. "Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you." ~ Brian Cox
12. "Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art." ~ Brian Cox
13. "As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it." ~ Brian Cox
14. "Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio." ~ Brian Cox
15. "Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia." ~ Brian Cox
16. "Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that." ~ Brian Cox
17. "I actually went to see 'Rushmore,' and I came late, and I missed myself. It was great, that scene. I caught that scene the other day on TV, funny enough, the first scene that you see with Jason Schwartzman and myself, where we talk about his grades. That's a brilliant scene, and I have to say, we play it brilliantly." ~ Brian Cox
18. "I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed." ~ Brian Cox
19. "I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work." ~ Brian Cox
20. "I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it." ~ Brian Cox
21. "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself." ~ Brian Cox
22. "I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych." ~ Brian Cox
23. "I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages." ~ Brian Cox
24. "I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming." ~ Brian Cox
25. "There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there." ~ Brian Cox
26. "For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'" ~ Brian Cox
27. "Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star." ~ Brian Cox

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