I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.