My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against you if you wanted to do something like that. But I was determined.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'

You look for comic relief in difficult times.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.

For me, to have my family with me is very important.