The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.

Two friends who work for the NHS, Jason and Kate. One is a paramedic and one has been moved to work in an ICU.

My mother, because she raised all of us. I do have a dad, but in those days dads never helped with the kids.

Paul Irons, the deputy head at my school, Fernwood comprehensive. He was an inspiration, and still is.

I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.

I am a major shoe queen.

Spending time with my family—with no phone, no fax, and no meetings.

From a heart attack at the Kodak Theatre when they announce I won best actor for Terminator 3.

My father would make sure that I knew what it meant. Just to give you an example, I started bodybuilding with the age of 15, and my father would say, why are you lifting these dumbbells and barbells? Don't you think it would be better to just go out and chop some wood and shovel some coal for some poor people that don't have anyone? Therefore you would get muscles. But at the same time, you're doing something useful. You're doing something for somebody rather than just for yourself and looking in a mirror at yourself and stuff like that. So he would make sure that you knew what being useful meant.

Well, there were, you know, several poses that was known for everybody, that is known for certain poses. And to me it was the three-quarter back pose. And it was a very difficult pose to do, to twist your body and to show the small waist and to show at the same time your wide shoulders, your back. And you also see the front and you see the abs and you see the calf and the thighs and all of those things. But it was a difficult pose to do. Very few bodybuilders could master it. I copied basically Reg Park, who was my idol and who won three times the Mr. Universe competition. And he was known for that pose in a kneeling position and in a standing position. And so because he was my idol, I was, you know, absolutely fanatic to copy his poses and then to kind of improve on that. And that's exactly what I did.