I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

With 'Lost,' some members of the cast would literally open the script and find out that they were dead. I mean, that's quite sad, really.

Whenever I go back to London, I have this horrible feeling that something bad will happen, and I won't be able to get back to America. It's a nightmare feeling.

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

I can't change a light bulb.

They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure.

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.

Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It's like a built-in design fault. You can't do anything about it.