The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.