Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

It's never fun to read death threats.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.