I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.