"Hey, if there's a possibility of getting on the cover, I've got some great nude shots you could put on there."
"The first two episodes of season five are really tremendous for me as an actor and for Teal'c as a character. Enemies, which was the first episode we shot when we came back, was the continuation of the cliffhanger from the last season and also the first part of the second episode called Threshold. Combined, the two really deal with my character's whole back-story and lead in from and tie up directly with the show's pilot episode. In Children Of The Gods there was basically no development as to why Teal'c chose to help SG-1. So what Threshold really does is kind of deal with my life and how I came to feel like I did about the Goa'uld; why I was teamed up with Bra'tac and about my training with him. It also focuses on my life as a young warrior before I was Apophis's First Prime."
"It really was a fun episode to do and I got to work a lot with Tony Amendola [Bra'tac], who is a delight to work with. We had to shoot this thing in the snow, which was interesting, especially as I had my shirt off again. However, there are no photographs because none were taken. Our publicist didn't think it was important enough to have a photographer on set that day so there are no photos of me, near naked, freezing my ass off."
"We go off to other worlds, have a mooch around and leave a slew of half-breed babies. All of us except for Carter. Honestly? Five years down the line I am more enthusiastic about the show than I have been for a long time. During the third and fourth seasons I was kind of looking forward to the gig being over, but with season five it seems that everybody has come back really fresh and excited. I know I was looking forward to coming back more than I had for ages. It really is fun again. It's a lot lighter and everyone is getting along really well.
"Seasons three and four were like the dog days of summer when you just wanted to get through it. Seems now there's a real vibe, a real sense of adventure again. It's a bit like a relationship between two people. You start off and everything is wonderful and then you get into a deeper understanding and things aren't always that great but then you rediscover what it is that brought you together in the first place and it's fantastic again. We're really going for it this year."
"Daniel and Teal'c are spending more time together, which is great because really, the only relationships that have been fleshed out previously are Teal'c's relationships with O'Neill and Bra'tac. Teal'c's relationships with everyone else were pretty unsubstantial. But the writers are spending more time actually getting into his relationships with Daniel Jackson and Carter, which is something that we welcome very much. The whole relationship between the entire group is getting more attention and focus. I don't just talk to O'Neill."
"I did an episode of Freedom and then went on to film an episode of First Wave with my friend Roger Cross, although Roger and I didn't actually work together on the screen. I did most of my scenes with Sebastian Spence. Sebastian reminds me so much of Michael Shanks - both tortured artistes suffering for their art... Seb and Shanks are very similar, which is great because it meant I found it very comfortable working with Sebastian. I play a compatriot of Nostradamus who comes back to visit Cade Foster to give him hope that the first wave is almost over. I had a real good time."
"He is every bit the legend people say he is. He is just a fine gentleman. The first day Mr Coburn came to set, they were doing hair and wardrobe and all that sort of stuff, and production stopped just so that all the actors and producers and everyone could go talk to Mr Coburn. They allowed everyone their time with him to show him the love and respect that he was due. No one was hurried back to set, everyone was allowed to have as much time with him as they wanted. He was welcoming and gracious and fun. It was an honour for me to be in the production with him."
"You'd better tell them to lock up all the women in the UK 'cos I'll be over there real soon..."