There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.