I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

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

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?

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.

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

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

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