Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

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

Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.

Sometimes I hate the job that I do as an actor. I feel like I'm just of no importance in the world, but sometimes you get a real thrill out of the diversity of the work.