"There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form."

"I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand."

"I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness."

"I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007."

"I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom."

"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."

"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."

"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage."