Henry Ian Cusick

Henry: (on his character on "Lost", Desmond) I was supposed to do the episode arc and that was it. I got the last [episode] and I realized they hadn't killed me off.

Henry: (His favorite place to be) At the moment, I'm falling head over heels in love with Hawaii. I'm absolutely loving it. When I drive around, I always have my swimming trunks and towel in the car just in case I want to stop off and jump in the ocean.

Henry: (On being an American sex symbol) That's just the weirdest thing. I think it's great. It's silly as well. It's fairly obvious who the sexy guys on the show are. I've never been of that mold.

Henry: (On his "Lost" character, Desmond) I think Desmond probably had it harder than most...Being stuck [in the hatch] for three years... Desmond's been dealt a really bum hand.

Henry: The writers created a very fascinating character with Desmond, enigmatic, determined and with the ability to me woken up by some beeping every 108 minutes, certainly something I could never do.

Henry: I got my first professional job as an ASM understudy at the Citizens theatre, playing a polar bear in the Christmas panto, A wonderful place to work, I was then offered bigger and better parts, and here I am!

Henry: one day, someone came around asking if anyone was interested in joining the National Youth Theatre summer school in London. I was the only person in the whole school that said yes... did the worst audition ever recorded, but still managed to get in, as there were only three applicants from Scotland, one was a girl wearing a tutu carrying a huge hula hoop... and that was the start.

Henry: (When asked where he was when he found out he was nominated for an Emmy.) I was In my kitchen.... doing the dishes and making dinner while hoovering and ignoring the kids as I got ready to go to work.

Henry: It's nice to see something besides a cop or a medical drama on TV.

Henry: How fantastic is it to live and work in Hawaii? We haven't even unpacked, and the boys have already jumped in the pool in their underpants.

Henry: American law doesn't acknowledge common-law wives, so Annie (His wife) had no legal standing in the States. We had to get married for the visa (or) Annie would have had to come and go every three months.

Henry: (About his "Lost" character, Desmond) He is a decent man who has been dealt some bad ones but keeps on going.

Henry: (about "Lost") I get the scripts and I know they will be great. What they have given me so far is a dream. I have no reason to worry.

Henry: (About his "Lost" co-stars) I've been able to work closely with Matthew, Clancy, and Terry. All three of them have been brilliant to work with and it raises your game. It's like doing a little play.

Henry: Having read the scripts and the way it is going, I have no idea what they are going to do with Desmond. When I read the season two finale, it was a different direction that I was expecting. I expected more spiritual stuff, but it was a lot more action-packed for Desmond.

Henry: I love working with Terry. He was the first person I worked with when I arrived and I found him very welcoming, yet pretty quiet and contained. He's very generous as an actor.

Henry: I had no idea [Desmond] was even in the army! I thought he was a doctor or something to do with medicine. I was very, very surprised to see that he was in jail for cowardice, or at least that's what we think. I had no idea, Honestly

Henry: I am very happy with my own company. I could just about cope with being in the hatch myself.

Henry: We moved out here, my wife and my two kids. We wake up every morning smiling. It's finally sunk in that I'm now working on Lost and living in Hawaii. I can now relax into it and not worry that's it getting taken away from me, like I'm killed off or it was mistake!

Henry: Faith is faith, and you do it because you have faith. They all believed by pressing the button that they were saving the world. Like most people, they have moments of weakness. But it's completely normal to have faith, lose it, and then get it back.

Henry: (about his naked scene in the third season of "Lost") I had a G-string on, the more I wore it the more comfortable I felt. That can't be good can it?