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

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.