I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.