When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.