A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.