I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about "the character," and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.