I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

[Julian Albert] is a CSI investigator; a forensic expert with similar skills to Barry, which gives them a different relationship to, I think, anyone else that he works with, because they're sort of treading on each other's toes in their field of expertise.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.