I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.