I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

I was in government for 13 years and in that time only once met the head of the German security services, and that was because he was an old friend. Otherwise, I carefully avoided having anything to do with these people. They are unavoidable but not really necessary.

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.