When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

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

I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.