When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

I don't see myself as the 'Hunk of the Month'.

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"