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1. The older I get, the more I’m prepared to do things for the money.
2. A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It’s not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
3. I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
4. Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
5. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
6. I saw the pilot, you know, because you have to have some knowledge of the piece that you are in, but I never saw an episode of ‘Lost.’
7. I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn’t belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
8. The unknown is always frightening.
9. I think you can achieve things in television that you can’t achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a lot of that in the first season of ‘Lost.’
10. Just because I never went to university doesn’t mean you can’t read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
11. I think any actor should be aware of where they’re starting to stretch into what’s not truthful.
12. 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.
13. If a character’s suddenly spouting information that’s supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.
14. Let’s just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
15. I couldn’t bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
16. 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.
17. Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if ‘Lost’ had just one season.
18. My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don’t think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.
19. The great lesson I got from my parents is how not to treat your children. To break that chain, even if I don’t do anything else, at least I’ve done that.
20. Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.